Instead, I voted to approve the draft standard because, without an established standard in place to regulate the headgear that has come on to the market in recent years (
none of which, according to US Lacrosse, has been developed based on scientific testing, and
none of which the organization - the governing body for both the men's and
women's game - has endorsed),
consumers are essentially «buying a pig in a poke»: in other words, without a clue as to whether the product they are buying has any safety value at all.