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MAY 27, 2019
VOLUME 48   ISSUE 20

 

PREMIUM CONTENT FROM PRODUCT SAFETY LETTER

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CPSC members May 21 voted 2-3 against a motion by Commissioner Dana Baiocco to bring in a detailee from FBI, DOJ or similar agency to investigate the large disclosure of information outside 6(b) procedures.


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CPSC Acting Chairman Ann Marie Buerkle May 21 clarified the intended temporary nature of placing review of Information Clearinghouse releases under the FoIA system.

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CPSC is redacting contact details of non-agency people from at least meeting logs.


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Commissioners May 21 removed a single, expensive project with the aim of making many more eligible for funding under the midyear budget update.


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Residential fires accounted for almost 78% of structure fires in 2013 to 2017, according to recent data from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA).


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Watch for a CPSC report on battery packing in the coming weeks. Staffers May 20 told the Button Battery Task force that they have been putting U.S. and some Japanese products through child-resistance assessment.

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The New York legislature is moving towards a law that would ban sale of crib bumpers in the state and prohibit some uses.


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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) May 15 said its recent review finds against the feasibility of regulating organohalogen flame retardants (OFRs) as a single class but suggested such an approach might be possible for 14 subclasses.


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Briefs on virtual reality, toys, car seats, sex toys, flame retardants, and food-contact material, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings.