Product Safety Letter will not appear March 27, 2023, due to its schedule of 48 issues per year. The next issue, Vol. 52, No. 13, will be April 3, 2023.

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

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CPSC hit or exceeded 17 of 24 performance goals in FY2022, according to a March 9 performance report.

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The European Commission March 13 attributed a slight decrease in Safety Gate alerts from 2021 to 2022 to dips in motor vehicle sales.

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The EC's "webcrawler" tool for e-commerce surveillance in 2022 aided national authorities in identifying 5,068 online offers of products deemed unsafe.

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UL 2201 likely reduces fatalities better but PGMA G300 better ensures safety system operation, suggested staff at a March 15 commission briefing on carbon monoxide and portable generators.

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CPSC staffers plan to collect three additional types of information for use in commission consideration of firewalled lab applications.

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CPSC staff in February urged steps targeting fires with portable electric heaters.

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Most tested combinations of odorants, refrigerants, and lubricants had acceptable material compatibility in a CPSC contractor review.

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Commissioner Peter Feldman March 9 reiterated his past concerns about small, flocked toys and their accessories.

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Eleven Senators March 7 wrote CPSC urging focus on the STURDY Act directives to evaluate ASTM F2057-23 for possible adoption.

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Toys and clothing were the main increases in a March 14 study by Kids in Danger (KID) that also found an overall increase in children's products recalls during 2022.

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Some aromatic brominated flame retardants are good candidates for restrictions in products, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) said March 15.

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E-commerce site Booktopia will pay AU$6 million in an Australian court order involving consumer guarantee representations.

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Products' chemical risks related to recycling are driven by functional additives, according to a March 16 report by the UK Office for Product Safety & Standards (OPSS).

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A quarter of downstream companies did not use chemicals as authorized in REACH restrictions, according to a recent report by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).

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Briefs on PFAS, zinc air batteries, gas stoves, CO detectors, bike helmets, baby gates, and angle grinders, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings.

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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.

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CPSC staff are recommending that commissioners update the portable generator rulemaking using elements from both the UL 2201 and PGMA G300 standards.

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CPSC March 8 granted one-year of enforcement discretion for zinc air button/coin-cell batteries for hearing aids and other hearing assistance devices.

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Consumers' perceptions that smart ovens are riskier than conventional is not necessarily linked to actual risks, according to the UK Office for Product Safety & Standards (OPSS).

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Use of smart technology to run appliances during non-peak hours could be slightly detrimental to safety, according to a report March 1 from the UK Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS).

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Smart technology in large domestic appliances might increase recall returns by as much as 19,000 per 100,000 units sold, according to a March 1 report from the UK Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS).

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Testing for vape battery safety should target at least four issues, according to a March 7 report by the UK Office for Product Safety & Standards (OPSS).

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Briefs on CPSC priorities, gas ranges, small cribs, fuel containers, Australia, and UK, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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).

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

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

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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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CPSC's budget for the ongoing fiscal year is $152.5 million under the appropriations act signed December 29.

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CPSC's Inspector General (IG) office made seven recommendations following its investigation into the vote on the agency's FY2022 operating plan.

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Whether there is a duty to remedy products that are functionally equivalent to those found to be hazardous is among the debates in recent filings in CPSC's administrative suit to force recalls by Amazon.

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With just few finalization steps left, the European Parliament and Council November 29 provisionally agreed on the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR).

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CPSC November 22 continued its recent run of unilateral warnings by urging against use of Lumi and Mini infant flotation neck rings from Otteroo.

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An October 27 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on CPSC's early-pandemic ports pullback gave two recommendations.

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Commissioners October 26 voted 3-1 to approve the FY2023 CPSC Operating Plan with more than two dozen amendments.

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CPSC was one of three agencies contacted in late September by three legislators about intellectual property violations against a Wisconsin company.

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The FBI's September 30 warning about online sales of counterfeit batteries focused on the safety risks.

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Kids In Danger (KID) launched a new online course geared towards entrepreneurs and businesses that create children’s products – the KID Design Safety Toolkit.