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Let’s recap what we learned this week:

The New York Department of State has said that it does not intend to publish mattress sanitizing regulations because doing so would constitute an effective ban on reconditioned mattresses.
The city’s Department of Consumer Affairs believes that poor New Yorkers—those who are least able to afford illness or the costs [...]

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Dateline’s investigative piece today revisited the reconditioned mattress problems in New York City.
In 1996, 19 states had laws in place regulating the sale of reconditioned mattresses. This year that number is up to 26. We started our investigation in New York, where state law requires them to be labeled clearly with yellow tags [...]

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