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[edit] Added Link

Added link to CPSC, previous link was to a site which was not particularly useful or easy to navigate and full of sponsored links to businesses with recalled items via google adwords.

[edit] Decision to recall

First an excerpt:

From: Fight Club, 1999, Fox

JACK (V.O.)
I'm a recall coordinator. My job is to apply the formula.
....
JACK (V.O.)
Take the number of vehicles in the field, (A), and multiply it by the probable rate of failure, (B), then multiply the result by the average out-of- court settlement, (C). A times B times C equals X...

JACK
If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.

BUSISNESS WOMAN
Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?

JACK
Oh, you wouldn't believe.

BUSINESS WOMAN
... Which... car company do you work for?

JACK
A major one.

Does anyone know if a procedure like this is actually used to determine whether to recall a product? Which profession would be used to make such a decision (e.g. an actuary?). If this sort of thing is the case, I think a new section should be made for the article.
--216.138.75.50 14:58, 22 October 2007 (UTC)