Oct 21 2024
Product Safety Letter will not appear October 28, due to its schedule of 48 issues per year. The next issue, Vol. 53, No. 41, will be November 4, 2024.
Oct 21 2024
Oct 21 2024
Subscriber-Only Story Commissioners October 16 voted to finalize CPSC's rule on infant support cushions with one amendment.
Oct 21 2024
Subscriber-Only Story The vibe of CPSC's October 16 briefing on the draft FY25 operating plan was concern about loss of capabilities due to low funding.
Oct 21 2024
Subscriber-Only Story Many comments to CPSC's rulemaking on button/coin batteries in toys indicate confusion about the lines between Reese's Law, the 2023 version of ASTM F963 on toys, and CPSC's proposal.
Oct 21 2024
Subscriber-Only Story Commissioners' votes are due October 22 on a 30-day extension for comments on data on debris penetration of off highway vehicles (OHVs).
Oct 21 2024
Subscriber-Only Story Health Canada October 16 warned about online availability of baby walkers, which are banned in that nation.
Oct 21 2024
Subscriber-Only Story The UK Office for Product Safety & Standards (OPSS) October 15 urged safety during that nation's fireworks season.
Oct 21 2024
Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on AI, e-scooters, toys, chargers, cribs/play yards, and Snuga, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings.
Oct 14 2024
Oct 14 2024
Subscriber-Only Story CPSC staffers October 4 repeated recent years' approach to the Operating Plan, giving two funding scenarios to consider for FY2025.
Oct 14 2024
Subscriber-Only Story Four commissioners October 10 urged secondary market e-commerce platforms to ensure against sales of recalled Fisher-Price Snuga infant swings.
Oct 14 2024
Subscriber-Only Story A September CPSC report described four "data analysis strategies" for better racial and socioeconomic understanding.
Oct 14 2024
Subscriber-Only Story 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
Subscriber-Only Story 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
Subscriber-Only Story CPSC knows of 373 deaths in 2017-2023 involving micromobility products.
Oct 14 2024
Subscriber-Only Story 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
Subscriber-Only Story 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
Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on ROVs/UTVs, infant bath seats, CPSC organization, and food contact, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings.
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Jun 10 2024
Free-Only Story 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
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.
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