Car Seats Have Expiration Dates!?

While reading some messages on a group I belong to I read this,
"I am contacting the member directly as well, but I am emailing to request the listing be removed. Those car seats were manufactured in May of 2003, making them 7 years old. Car seats expire and are supposed to be disposed of at 6 years old. I would hate for someone who doesn't know this to buy these seats and use them, when they are no longer safe to use." In response to someone wanting to sale a child's car seat. Now I know nothing about children's car seats, but this idea of something other then a food item or chemical product having a defined expiration date bothers me.

Let me give you a hypothetical example, if the Obama Administration decided that all TVs sold as of July 1st will have a three year expiration date and after that date those TVs must be taken off the market and can't be resold after their expiration date in the used goods markets, in an attempt to "help" the economy. Now if the Obama Administration was to try this you could be sure the American public would be outraged. The idea of an expiration date on a non-food item or chemical product annoys me, now I know that a parent certainly doesn't want to risk their child's life in a used car seat but the question is how do you know that an item is no longer any good? The fact is that many items still work well years after they where purchased, and just as many items wear out long before they should. If a manufacture of a product wants to give a product a life expectancy I don't have a problem with that, but as progressives have shown they think that our Constitution has out lived its "life expectancy" and needs to be replaced, quite frankly it should be up to the consumer to decide whether they want to trust an item past its "life expectancy."

Remember, Caveat Emptor, let the buyer beware!

Solomon.