Manufacturers and distributors dealing with safety standards are sometimes confronted with conflicting safety and design standards when preparing a product for European and American markets.  When a product liability case takes place in the U.S., plaintiff attorneys try to take advantage of those differences. They try to introduce those different standards into evidence to suggest to the jury that the manufacturer is following a safer course with foreign countries but not with the Americans. The courts that have dealt with the admissibility of alternate standards are uniform in their approach but depending on details the outcome can be different in different cases. The article reviews representative cases on point.

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