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On March 11, 2011, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission launched SaferProducts.gov. This site hosts the agency's new Publicly Available Consumer Product Safety Information Database. On SaferProducts.gov, consumers can submit reports of harm or reports of potential harm. After a short amount of time for review by the agency and named manufacturer, these reports go live on SaferProducts.gov and are searchable by the public. The public also can export search results. The Application Protocol Interface (API), to open the published SaferProducts.gov data to developers and businesses so that the information in SaferProducts.gov can be accessed by an even greater number of consumers online and on mobile devices.