Thursday, December 11th, 2008

Another resource to help with Consumer Safety: GoodGuide.com Beta

While I was looking into the CPSC for my interview with Scott Wolfson, I came across a new online service. I haven’t had a chance to properly kick the tires on it yet but it is a relatively new site currently in Beta called GoodGuide.com. Based in San Francisco, GoodGuide is a free Web site that evaluates the safety of more than 65,000 toys, personal care and household products. They posted a holiday guide to safe toys this week on their blog.

From their website:
GoodGuide™ strives to provide the world’s largest and most reliable source of information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of products and companies. GoodGuide’s mission is to help you find safe, healthy, and green products that are better for you and the planet. From our origins as a UC Berkeley research project, GoodGuide has developed into a totally independent “For-Benefit” company. We are committed to providing the information you need to make better decisions, and to ultimately shifting the balance of information and power in the marketplace.

Like I said, it’s new and it’s in Beta but the GoodGuide looks like another resource worth taking advantage of. According to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle this morning, GoodGuide will be available on iPhones as well as cell phones that can handle text messages. Will keep an eye out for that too.

Cheers,
RBH

Tagged: consumer safety, CPSC, ebay, ecommerce, GoodGuide, GoodGuide.com