Consumer Reports Launches Safety Blog

Posted on September 27, 2006

Consumer Reports has launched a new blog on safety called, Consumer Reports on Safety. The blog is written by Don Mays, senior director for product safety at Consumer Reports, and Caroline Mayer, former Washington Post consumer issues columnist. The announcement was made in a press release.

Consumer Reports announced today the launch of a new blog, Consumer Reports on Safety http://www.consumerreports.org/safetyblog. This blog will offer consumers analysis of important safety issues and provide need-to-know information for keeping families safe from preventable injury or illness. The entries will cover a wide range of topics including food safety, child safety, product recalls, hidden hazards and more. ConsumerReports.org recently reached a milestone of more than 2.5 million active, paid subscribers, making it the largest publication-based Web site.

Topics recently covered in the blog include bike helmets, the spinach E.coli crisis and a recalled toy tool bench. The blog has permalinks but no comments. You will you need to set your browser to accept a cookie from Consumer Reports or the blog won't load properly.

Consumer Reports also has a Cars Blog and a Taxing Times blog. The Taxing Times blog was only active during tax season.