Nancy Harvey Steorts served as Chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission under President Ronald Reagan and previously served as consultant to the Director of the U.S. Office on Consumer Affairs at the White House and as Special Assistant for Consumer Affairs to the Secretary of Agriculture during the Nixon and Ford administrations.

Ms. Steorts is the president of Nancy Harvey Steorts International, an international consulting firm specializing in consumer product safety, quality standards, government representation, national media representation, and joint ventures with industry.

"This book offers a pragmatic, comprehensive yet evidence-based approach to understanding safety and injury prevention. The author's years of experience and insights into consumer protection, public education, and the economics of preventing injury help fill this book with insights and strategies that can be implemented by the average person."
Ron J. Anderson, M.D., President and Chief Executive Oficer, Parkland Health & Hospital System

Nancy Steorts has combined her professional and personal experiences to create a definitive and comprehensive consumer safety reference guide, which promises to become a standard in the American home.

In this extensive and easily referenced manual, Steorts addresses the safety concerns consumers have (or should have) about their homes, automobiles, food, and other products.

The book incudes a glossary of private and government product safety organizations, and additional sources for obtaining further information. Heavily documented with newspaper headlines, test results, and statistics, Steorts draws on her own work as a government administrator and her personal experience as a mother and grandmother. The result is a highly readable, practical and informative manual.

".......This is a book that no home should be without."
Horace B. Deets, Executive Director, AARP

Contents include everything from Holiday safety to foodborne illness.