Posted on 05/30/2012 11:34:03 AM PDT by ColdOne
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has called on the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to review whether metal grill brushes are safe for consumer use, after reports that some metal bristles broke off the brush and were swallowed, sending two men to the hospital.
"Metal bristles are one topping no one wants on their burger this holiday season," Schumer said Tuesday. "Grilling season should be a great time for the whole family, not a time to be worried about an emergency visit to the hospital."
Schumer said men from New Jersey and Washington State were recently hospitalized after swallowing metal bristles that fell off their grill brushes. He said that reports indicate that similar incidents occurred nearly a dozen times over the last three years.
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Lets see, lets take a cheap product made in China. Its plastic with metal bristles inserted.
Hold it over a hot fire and apply force to it which loosen the bristles.
Then don’t check to make sure your grill is clean and safe for use.
yep we need more federal oversight.
FMCDH
He and Gloria Allred must have the same speechwriter.
Chucky is just bristling with good ideas.
LOL
Who died and made you king of the grill brushes?
(That's Charlie Schmuck's job.)
This looks like some kind of rainbow legislation. Who in their right mind wants to swallow brass bristles? Aside from licking and swallowing ........
He literally doesn't. Relentless expansion of the State is his whole reason for existence.
Why not have federal brush inspectors tag the brushes? BBQ Enforcement officers could then randomnly inspect brushes to see if they have a current inspection tag. Each grill can be equipped with x-ray equipment in which hamburgers must be viewed prior to being placed on a platter. There are many alternatives to Schumer’s plan to simply ban the brushes. When will common sense prevail? Will it be when the Chinese have all the BBQ brushes and we have none?
Ah, Chuckie - always keeping his eye on the important things.
DO NOT EAT THIS BRUSH
I agree - and it’s not something I had ever thought about or worried about. But yeah - obviously it doesn’t need another federal committee to deal with it.
One good lawyer could probably solve the problem.
HEY CHUCK - MAYBE THE SENATE SHOULD PASS A BUDGET BEFORE WORRYING ABOUT THIS CRAP!
That reminds me-We’re opening our pool next weekend and the
senator is stopping to say a few words about pool safety!
$17 trillion in debt, 95% of it while Shmucky was in the Senate after chasing amblances in NYC...
...and the anti-American Libtard, gun-grabber, voter ID law killer, exempt-from-ObamacCare-advocate-of-ObamaCare Commie is worried about grill brushes.
Wow. What a jackass.
I have a bristle and I CCW it whenever I leave the house.
As long as the nation gets cake, no one cares.
From my coaled dead hands!
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