There's also the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), passed in 2008, which broadened the scope of the 47-year-old federal agency called the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
The CPSIA is a law, and can't approve anything. And the CPSC, a federal agency, would never recommend a product. It would just certify a children's product or a consumer product — like blinds, fridges, bikes, blinds, and so on — to be used in US markets.
Yet Johnson says she sees language like that all the time in product descriptions.
"If I see CPSC-approved or CPSI-approved, that's an immediate kind of, oh, you have no idea what you're talking about," she said.