Product Safety Letter will not appear August 9, 2021, due to its schedule of 48 issues per year. The next issue, Vol. 50, No. 30, will be August 16, 2021.

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Senate Commerce leaders of both parties used the hearing for three CPSC nominees to highlight two issues: elevators and ports.

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Data interpretation was the topic of disagreement among commenters to a CPSC request involving off-highway vehicles (OHVs) and debris penetration.

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There was an estimated annual average in 2016-2018 of 362,000 residential fires associated with consumer products.

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CPSC Acting Chairman Bob Adler July 27 voiced support of considering a petition to treat certain commercially bred dogs as products subject to CPSC oversight.

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The Low Voltage Directive (2014/35/EU) (LVD) regulates the safety of electrical equipment placed on the EU market within certain voltage limits.

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In the EU, the product safety framework is complemented by the product liability regime that provides a mechanism for consumers to obtain compensation for damage caused by defective products.

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Briefs on home elevators, butane stoves, CO/Smoke alarms, warnings, and CPSC contracts plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings.

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CPSC July 20 urged lodging rental websites to take action on residential elevators deemed unsafe.

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There was a 22% drop in NEISS data in the first 10 months of the pandemic compared to the same period in 2019.

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The Senate is moving relatively quickly on CPSC nominations.

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Product safety is among the key targets of a July 22 UK report on modernizing voluntary standards.

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Product safety pledges alone likely are not sufficient to address problems involving ecommerce platforms.

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The EC July 15 started a process towards restricting all per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

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Briefs on Amazon, NEISS, PFAS, and right-to-repair, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings.

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A rarely discussed 1974 CPSC opinion on salmonella transmission from commercially produced pet turtles is the precedent cited in a dog-related petition before the commission.

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Rich Trumka, Jr. is President Joe Biden's third CPSC commissioner selection.

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President Joe Biden July 2 sent two CPSC nominations to the Senate, including one for chairman.

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by Carol Pollack-Nelson

On June 2, 2021, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted to require flat infant sleep products that do not fit into one of five product categories for which there are mandatory safety standards (full and non-full-size cribs, play yards, bassinets, bedside sleepers) to meet the requirements of the bassinet standard.

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by Robert Adler, CPSC Acting Chairman

As someone whose connection with the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s experience interpreting and implementing section 6(b) goes back almost fifty years, I want to respond to my longtime friend Alan Schoem’s recent article in Product Safety Letter regarding this troublesome provision of the law. Mr. Schoem’s basic thesis is that 6(b) is not the “gag order” it is portrayed to be.

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by Alan H. Schoem

As the CPSC lawyer previously responsible for interpreting and enforcing the information disclosure provisions in the Consumer Product Safety Act known as “6(b)”, I thought providing some factual information may help all to better understand that while CPSC must take certain legal steps prior to releasing certain information, 6(b) is not the “gag order” it is portrayed to be.

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Amazon has asked CPSC to consider a product safety pledge for ecommerce sites.

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CPSC included a rebuttal by Peloton in a unilateral warning about the company's Tread+ treadmills.

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There is disagreement among commissioners about a congressional goal for CPSC ports activity.

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The recent addition of $50 million into CPSC's budget means commissioners are expected to deal with the midyear projects update in two parts.

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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.