| Regulators Push Safety Standards for A.T.V.’s |
| Tuesday, 24 November 2009 10:49 |
 For parents wanting to provide their children some good, clean off-roading fun, the Fushin, a smaller-than-normal all-terrain vehicle, seemed just the thing.Except the Chinese import with jaunty yellow paint and a low $250 price tag was missing one feature: front brakes. In the $5 billion market for A.T.V.’s, the skyrocketing growth of Chinese imports is becoming the latest challenge for the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which is starting a global campaign to improve the safety of a product that kills more people — about 900 a year — than any of the 15,000 other products the commission regulates. |