Professor Robert Rabin weighs on the power of the Consumer Product Safety Commission since Congress expanded its authority in 2008 in this New York Times article. 

Buckyballs are dead — banned by federal authorities as a threat to children who might ingest them. But Shihan Qu is waging a lonely battle to save his version of the powerful little magnetic toys.

Mr. Qu is the only manufacturer still fighting the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which has demanded that Buckyballs and similar magnets be recalled after children were injured after swallowing them.

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“It may be a stretch beyond what they’ve done in the past, and surely a stretch beyond their relative inactivity,” said Robert L. Rabin, a law professor at Stanford University who specializes in health and safety regulation. “But I don’t think it in any way is outside the scope of their authority.”