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Matthew Campbell will be CPSC's new general counsel, Acting Chairman Peter Feldman announced March 11.

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CPSC's tally of pending FoIA requests went up almost 30% in FY2024. It began the year with 276, received 783, processed 701, and finished with 358 still needing work.

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Two developments that were occurring near the PSL deadline will shape CPSC's short- and long-term future.

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A March 11 executive order directs agencies to be aggressive in asking judges to require bonds from those seeking preliminary injunctions against the government.

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Health Canada processed 582 product safety reports in the fourth quarter of calendar 2024, according to its most recent data.

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The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in late February said it had updated its recommendations to registrants of chemicals.

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CPSC March 6 reported it estimates there were 204 unintentional deaths in 2021 involving non-fire carbon monoxide incidents and consumer products.

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Commissioners' votes are due March 18 on incorporating changes in ASTM F2012-24 into the Section 104 rules for stationary activity centers at 16 CFR 1238.

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Briefs on sanitizing sprayers, infant cushions, CPSC grants, and circular economy, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings.

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Commissioners February 27 and 28 unanimously voted to grant a conditional stay in the Amazon forced recall case.

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CPSC will be neither obliged nor prohibited in providing materials in non-English under a March 1 executive order.

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CPSC publicly posted two February 26 memos to staff against harassment and employment discrimination.

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Restrictions on de minimis shipments from three nations remain paused under three new executive orders.

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The 10th Circuit US appeals court March 3 let stand CPSC's 2022 rule on small, powerful, separable magnets.

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CPSC still had three information-security recommendations open at the end of FY2024 and related to the 2019 unauthorized release of information.

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The International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization (ICPHSO) held its 2025 Annual Meeting and Training Symposium on February 17-20, 2025.

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Briefs on play yard mattresses, CPSC tech, awnings, amusement rides, batteries, CPSC grants, NEISS, coal/wood burning appliances, and carpets/rugs, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings.

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If anything is clear from the tornado of executive orders in recent weeks, it is that trying to predict how an agency might operate over the next four years is a fool’s errand.

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Policy and legal decisions at CPSC and other regulatory agencies are under more direct White House control via a February 17 executive order.

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A February 18 executive order lays out classification criteria for regulations with an aim towards picking those to amend or eliminate.

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The Department of Justice is set to ask the Supreme Court to overturn the legal precedent used to support the Consumer Product Safety Act's protection against at-will firing of CPSC commissioners and similar shields for other agencies.

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The February 11 executive order that could reduce federal staffing by as much as 75% also contains a provision for agency heads to report on statutorily required activities.

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Commissioners did not reach a majority vote so will take no action on a Nested Bean demand to update safe sleep guidelines regarding weighted infant sleep products.

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Commissioners approved the e-filing implementation rule with an extended general effective date of 18 months from publication.

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Standards development organizations (SDOs) such as ASTM and UL rely heavily on CPSC’s incident data to inform their standards development process.

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CPSC International Programs staff would move towards virtual training of foreign companies under the FY2025 Operating Plan commissioners approved 5-0 November 6.

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

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Democratic CPSC Commissioners August 21 cast two votes against a retraction request from Dreamland Baby and to send the firm an explanatory letter.

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A July 23 House hearing on CPSC's FY2024 budget was a wide-ranging review of agency activities.

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Whether executive branch administrative trials involve legal issues often at issue in common law actions is at the center of a June 27 Supreme Court's decision that fraud proceedings at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) violate the 7th Amendment right to trial by jury.

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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.

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Budget tightening is set to be the focus of the May 8 commission briefing on midyear update to CPSC's FY2024 operating plan.

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Judges of the 5th Circuit U.S. appeals court April 16 denied a request for an en banc rehearing of the decision that upheld CPSC commissioners' removal protections.

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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).

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

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

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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.