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Oct 14 2024

Oct 14 2024

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CPSC staffers October 4 repeated recent years' approach to the Operating Plan, giving two funding scenarios to consider for FY2025.

Oct 14 2024

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Four commissioners October 10 urged secondary market e-commerce platforms to ensure against sales of recalled Fisher-Price Snuga infant swings.


Oct 14 2024

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A September CPSC report described four "data analysis strategies" for better racial and socioeconomic understanding.

Oct 14 2024

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CPSC might simply push inhalant abusers who use "duster" aerosols to other products, according to some of the pushback to the notice of proposed rulemaking.


Oct 14 2024

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Lawyers for Amazon in late September laid out multiple disagreements with changing the proposed notification and action plan in the forced-recall case.

Oct 14 2024

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CPSC knows of 373 deaths in 2017-2023 involving micromobility products.


Oct 14 2024

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The U.K, Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) seeks response by December 2 on a call for evidence on common chargers.


Oct 14 2024

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E-bike visibility might need to go beyond reflector requirements, according to an October 3 CPSC staff review of bicycle standards, both powered and non-powered.


Oct 14 2024

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Briefs on ROVs/UTVs, infant bath seats, CPSC organization, and food contact, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings.


Oct 07 2024

Oct 07 2024

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Hazard patterns for a broadly defined product class of infant support cushions match those of the subset infant loungers, commissioners heard October 2.


Oct 07 2024

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Commissioner Peter Feldman October 2 raised concern about CPSC staffers' approach to neck floats, which is limited to toys. He called for closed-session legal discussion on ways to possibly expanding the approach.


Oct 07 2024

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Commissioners September 25-27 voted 5-0 to publish a notice of availability and request for comments on incident data used for CPSC's rulemaking on debris penetration in off-highway vehicles.


Oct 07 2024

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The European Commission has been continuing its work to get ready for the new EU General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) adopting a Delegated Regulation on August 17, 2024, laying down operating rules for the Safety Gate Rapid Alert System and updated risk assessment methodology for Member States to use to support a notification.


Oct 07 2024

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The Product Regulation and Metrology Bill was introduced into the UK Parliament and read for the first time on September 4, 2024.


Oct 07 2024

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Briefs on drain covers, playgrounds, infant rockers, and batteries, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings.



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Jun 10 2024

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The 10th Circuit U.S. appeals court June 4 ruled Leachco cannot stop CPSC's administrative proceeding based solely on whether the commission's structure is constitutional.


Mar 15 2024

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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

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The Senate March 7 confirmed Douglas Dziak, by unanimous voice vote, to become a CPSC commissioner.


Feb 05 2024

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Consumer product recalls announced by the CPSC in 2023 showed some troublesome extremes.


Jan 22 2024

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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

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Cost-benefit procedure was faulted September 12 by a three-judge panel to vacate CPSC's rule on custom window coverings.


Sep 11 2023

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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

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CPSC's July 27 hearing on battery fires, especially in micromobility, was marked by a consensus across stakeholders for commission rulemaking.


May 08 2023

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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

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Furniture manufacturers and retailers are currently at a crossroads not knowing which way to turn.


Apr 03 2023

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Douglas Dziak is the nominee for the open commissioner position at CPSC.


Mar 20 2023

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CPSC's FY2024 budget request, if granted, would give it 39.4% raise over its current funding.


Mar 13 2023

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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

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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

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CPSC staff February 22 sent commissioners a draft request for information (RFI) about gas stoves' effects on indoor air.


Feb 20 2023

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CPSC staffers February 10 asked UL to form a working group to look at lithium-ion battery fires in micromobility products.


Feb 13 2023

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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

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'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

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Many of CPSC staff's 6(b) proposals rely on an understanding of disclosure as involving release of new information.


Jan 16 2023

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The Window Covering Manufacturers Association (WCMA) January 10 won a stay of the recent CPSC rule on custom window coverings.