Mar 20 2023
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.
Mar 20 2023
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 20 2023
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CPSC hit or exceeded 17 of 24 performance goals in FY2022, according to a March 9 performance report.
Mar 20 2023
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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.
Mar 20 2023
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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.
Mar 20 2023
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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.
Mar 20 2023
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CPSC staffers plan to collect three additional types of information for use in commission consideration of firewalled lab applications.
Mar 20 2023
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CPSC staff in February urged steps targeting fires with portable electric heaters.
Mar 20 2023
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Most tested combinations of odorants, refrigerants, and lubricants had acceptable material compatibility in a CPSC contractor review.
Mar 20 2023
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Commissioner Peter Feldman March 9 reiterated his past concerns about small, flocked toys and their accessories.
Mar 20 2023
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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.
Mar 20 2023
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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.
Mar 20 2023
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Some aromatic brominated flame retardants are good candidates for restrictions in products, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) said March 15.
Mar 20 2023
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E-commerce site Booktopia will pay AU$6 million in an Australian court order involving consumer guarantee representations.
Mar 20 2023
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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).
Mar 20 2023
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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).
Mar 20 2023
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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.
Mar 13 2023
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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CPSC staff are recommending that commissioners update the portable generator rulemaking using elements from both the UL 2201 and PGMA G300 standards.
Mar 13 2023
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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.
Mar 13 2023
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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).
Mar 13 2023
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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).
Mar 13 2023
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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).
Mar 13 2023
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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).
Mar 13 2023
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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.