Is There a Place for Government to Test Consumer Product Safety?

I wouldn't go so far as to say that the government should not at all be in the business of generating information, though i am concerned about exactly the same forces this, this evil industry that miss o'reilley talks about. I don't see how we guard ourselves against that. But it seems to me that there a case to be made that the market does not supply enough information. It may not, but the market supplies a great deal. And there is also a free rider problem in the negative sense, on government provision of information, because people who have no use for that information are required to pay pay for it. That's a logic in an egg situation, which is ridiculous