Mar 18 2024
Mar 18 2024
Subscriber-Only Story Republicans chairing the House committee and subcommittee that oversee CPSC March 4 asserted that the agency puts policy announcements behind a paywall when speaking before the International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization (ICPHSO).
Mar 18 2024
Subscriber-Only Story CPSC seeks $183.05 million for its FY2025 budget. That would be a roughly 20% increase above its current funding level of $152.5 million under a continuing resolution that is based on its FY2023 appropriation.
Mar 18 2024
Subscriber-Only Story CPSC staff deemed there to be poor online presentation of safety information for portable electric heaters in a review of 10 models.
Mar 18 2024
Subscriber-Only Story CPSC received two comments, both positive, on its request for feedback on whether recent changes in ASTM's F3429/F3429M-23 fuel container standard improve safety.
Mar 18 2024
Subscriber-Only Story Commissioner Mary Boyle March 12 expressed pleasure with CPSC's recently approved publication of an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) on mechanical hazards of e-bikes.
Mar 18 2024
Subscriber-Only Story Commissioners Richard Trumka and Mary Boyle added their praise of the confirmation of Douglas Dziak.
Mar 18 2024
Subscriber-Only Story Give the EC input by April 10 on an initiative to increase quality control of food contact materials.
Mar 18 2024
Subscriber-Only Story Health Canada processed 2,612 product reports in calendar 2023, including 1,370 from consumers and 1,242 from industry.
Mar 18 2024
Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on crib bumpers, extension cords, garage doors, and CPSC performance, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings.
Mar 11 2024
Mar 11 2024
Subscriber-Only Story The Senate March 7 confirmed Douglas Dziak, by unanimous voice vote, to become a CPSC commissioner. He will be the second Republican on the panel when he is sworn in, likely in coming days.
Mar 11 2024
Subscriber-Only Story Inclines, mattresses, and compact designs got the most attention at CPSC's March 6 briefing on updates to rules on basinets and cradles.
Mar 11 2024
Subscriber-Only Story Commissioner Richard Trumka March 7 used the words failure and worthless to describe a recall of Jool Baby Nova infant swings the same day.
Mar 11 2024
Subscriber-Only Story Commissioner Peter Feldman March 1 called for compliance with and enforcement of the STURDY Act on furniture tipovers.
Mar 11 2024
Subscriber-Only Story A CPSC report on the Freedom of Information Act (FoIA), made available February 29, confirmed that the agency has been in discussions with a company about purchasing an artificial intelligence tool for record processing.
Mar 11 2024
Subscriber-Only Story Commissioner Richard Trumka February 29 praised the possible free availability of a patent for blade-stop technology.
Mar 11 2024
Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on hoverboards, e-bikes, garage doors, and product ingredients, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings.
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Mar 15 2024
Free Story Republicans chairing the House committee and subcommittee that oversee CPSC March 4 asserted that the agency puts policy announcements behind a paywall when speaking before the International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization (ICHPSO).
Mar 07 2024
Free Story The Senate March 7 confirmed Douglas Dziak, by unanimous voice vote, to become a CPSC commissioner.
Feb 05 2024
Free Story Consumer product recalls announced by the CPSC in 2023 showed some troublesome extremes.
Jan 22 2024
Free Story The U.S. 5th Circuit appeals court January 17 upheld the protections CPSC commissioners enjoy against not-for-cause removal by presidents.
Sep 18 2023
Free Story Cost-benefit procedure was faulted September 12 by a three-judge panel to vacate CPSC's rule on custom window coverings.
Sep 11 2023
Free Story While the recent $11.5 M civil penalty agreement between Whirlpool and the CPSC certainly raised some eyebrows, what caught my attention are the technical issues behind this penalty.
Jul 31 2023
Free Story CPSC's July 27 hearing on battery fires, especially in micromobility, was marked by a consensus across stakeholders for commission rulemaking.
May 08 2023
Free Story Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) April 26 pushed Consumer Reports to detail any contacts by its writers or other staff with anyone at CPSC over gas stoves.
Apr 17 2023
Free Story Furniture manufacturers and retailers are currently at a crossroads not knowing which way to turn.
Apr 03 2023
Free Story Douglas Dziak is the nominee for the open commissioner position at CPSC.
Mar 20 2023
Free Story CPSC's FY2024 budget request, if granted, would give it 39.4% raise over its current funding.
Mar 13 2023
Free Story A child's value of statistical life (VSL) would be twice that of an adult's in a draft CPSC guidance on such calculations.
Mar 13 2023
Free Story The International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization (ICPHSO) kicked off its 30th Anniversary year at the recently held 2023 Annual Meeting and Training Symposium in Orlando, Florida.
Feb 27 2023
Free Story CPSC staff February 22 sent commissioners a draft request for information (RFI) about gas stoves' effects on indoor air.
Feb 20 2023
Free Story CPSC staffers February 10 asked UL to form a working group to look at lithium-ion battery fires in micromobility products.
Feb 13 2023
Free Story Commissioners voted 3-1 February 8 to publish the supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) on revising CPSC's 6(b) rules.
Feb 06 2023
Free Story 'Second-life' lithium-ion batteries have generally the same hazard patterns as new counterparts, but at higher likelihood, according to a January 31 report by the UK Office for Product Safety & Standards (OPSS).
Jan 23 2023
Free Story Many of CPSC staff's 6(b) proposals rely on an understanding of disclosure as involving release of new information.
Jan 16 2023
Free Story The Window Covering Manufacturers Association (WCMA) January 10 won a stay of the recent CPSC rule on custom window coverings.
Jan 09 2023
Free Story Peloton will pay $19.065 million to settle two CPSC allegations involving Tread+ treadmills – reporting incidents late and selling 38 units after recalling.
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