CPSC Announces New Testing, Evaluation Facility
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Acting Chairman Nancy Nord recently announced that a lease has been signed to expand and modernize the agency's testing facilities. The new facility, located off the "I-270 Technology Corridor" in Rockville, Md., will enhance CPSC's efforts to protect the public from dangerous consumer products and brings scientists and engineers together in one testing facility.
The new facility is targeted to open in phases within one year and centralizes in one place CPSC's engineers, who are currently working in two locations. CPSC's engineers will join forces there with staff scientists to work as teams of experts on a broad range of products, such as toys, electrical appliances, mattresses, and sleepwear.
"I am very pleased to announce the addition of this facility to CPSC's resources to protect American families," Nord said. "This has been a personal goal to provide 21st century tools for the CPSC. We appreciate very much the funds from Congress to make this significant facility upgrade a reality."
The new facility will provide additional space for CPSC's Laboratory and Engineering Sciences Teams to test and evaluate consumer products; support standards development, both voluntary and mandatory; and support compliance, investigatory and recall-related work.
The new facility will be located at 5 Research Place in Rockville, Md., close to CPSC's headquarters.