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CPSC Acting Chairman Bob Adler January 15 wrote the Senate committee and subcommittee that oversee the agency seeking aid in getting COVID-19 vaccines for staffers whose duties make social distancing difficult.

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CPSC missed five of 25 performance goals in FY2020, and it did not have data for two.

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A late December open letter from Health Canada gives additional advice on the nation's mandates for flammability and children's costumes.

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The EU's REACH system has had a positive cost-benefit effect, according to a January 13 report from the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).

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A pilot program for the UK's Primary Authority system found three benefits and four challenges.

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Briefs on child strength, infant swings, regulatory review, deregulation, regulations, rulemaking freeze.

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Commissioners voted 4-0 to publish an updated Federal Register notice on seeking OMB approval for a child strength study.

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CPSC January 8 warned against buying or using loose 18650 lithium-ion batteries.

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Comments were generally supportive towards CPSC's proposal for a Section 104 rule on crib mattresses.

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A new product safety regulation from the U.K. Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) gives advice for post-Brexit compliance in that nation.

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An ASTM F15.21 task group January 11 began looking at whether testing failures of ring slings are due to lab setups or instructions rather than the products themselves.

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Participants in an ASTM F15.74 teleconference January 14 decided to consider an idea to specify appropriate users of weighted blankets by both age and weight.

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A new guidance from the U.K. Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) includes four elements companies should provide when submitting product reports.

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Briefs on children's bikes, artificial intelligence, mattress flammability plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings.

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Gib Mullan, CPSC general counsel, and Chris Hudgins, the agency's legislative affairs director, will be leaving.

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CPSC has not paid Adam Savage a $30,000 fee for his services and use of his image.

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Nancy Beck's CPSC nominations were put in question June 17.

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CPSC's recently created position of consumer ombudsman will have five broad mission goals.

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CPSC will follow a new executive order on regulations.

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Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) May 13 sought information from CPSC-chairman-nominee Nancy Beck about her alleged role in reports of the White House purportedly delaying release of a CDC guideline on post-pandemic reopenings.

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CPSC's rescheduling of its priorities hearing for May 27 is not an indication that the agency is set to return to normal, in-person operations.

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CPSC and other federal agencies should take five areas into considerations when deciding to resume physical operations, according to an April 20 guidance from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

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Companies with specific problems delivering recall remedies should make those issues clear to consumers, CPSC is urging.

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CPSC is advising that some companies' recall remedies currently might be unavailable.

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CPSC will use teleworking to the "maximum extent possible" as a Coronavirus precaution, according to a March 13 statement.

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The White House March 2 announced the nomination of Nancy Beck to be CPSC chairman.

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Discussion February 27 between CPSC and ASTM staff on wearable technology quickly expanded into how the two organizations are adapting to emerging technology broadly.

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CPSC staff gave commissioners five reasons to support recently approved integration of some General Counsel staff into the Office Compliance and Field Operations.

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Former CPSC Acting Chairman Ann Marie Buerkle spoke to PSL about her decision to join the Washington, D.C. office of Williams & Jensen as a principal starting January 22.

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A report from the Democratic minority of the Senate Commerce Committee urged three steps to improve CPSC responses to unsafe products.

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Gib Mullan will become CPSC general counsel, Acting Chairman Bob Adler told PSL, October 1.

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Robert Adler will take over as CPSC acting chairman October 1.

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Briefs on product safety education, chemicals, PFAS, car seats, anchoring, OHVs, strollers, flooring, consumer education, hot car deaths, vinyl gloves, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings.

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CPSC Acting Chairman Ann Marie Buerkle will leave the commission October 27 and will step down as agency head September 30.