There's a big story and a couple of fine editorials in the Sunday New York Times regarding the response of the toy, food, tobacco and many other industries to a variety of pressures, including but not at all limited to the massive public outcry over dangerous products being imported from China. Of course, a second goal of industry is to convince Congress that the price of federal regulation, no matter how insignificant its provisions, must be to permanently preempt or limit the authority of state legislators and state enforcement agencies including those pesky state Attorneys General to protect consumer, worker and environmental health, safety and financial well-being. Their goals even extend to eliminating the right of injured consumers to seek compensation in state courts. The front page story by Eric Lipton and Gardiner Harris is called In Turnaround, Industries Seek U.S. Regulation:

For toys and cars, antifreeze and fireworks, popcorn and produce and cigarettes and light bulbs, among other products, industry groups or major manufacturers are calling for federal health, safety and environmental mandates. Some of those industries are abandoning years of efforts to block such measures, often in alliance with the Bush administration, which pledged to ease what it views as costly, unnecessary rules.