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THE CONSUMER electronics industry has seen significant technological progress during the last 50 years, especially with respect to radio and television receivers. Transitions from single-band, table-top radios in simple wooden cabinets to multi-band, multi-purpose communications receivers in stylish polymeric enclosures; from 4-tube hand-wired AM receivers to automatically-assembled, semiconductor-circuited entertainment centers; and from 5-inch black-and- white television receivers to remotecontrolled giant color screens epitomize this progress.

One of the obligations of offerors in the preparation of proposed standards for the Consumer Product Safety Commission is to include consumer representatives on the standards-writing committee. This report describes Underwriters Laboratories Inc.'s problems in identifying consumer representatives and its experience with consumer representation on the committee preparing a proposed television receiver safety standard.