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Recently sworn-in CPSC Chairman Elliot Kaye August 13 told reporters assembled in his Bethesda, Md. office that he doesn’t like the “paradigm of winners and losers” when it comes to product safety.

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CPSC staff in late July suggested that work on the strangulation risks associated with window covering cords should be moving more quickly and more comprehensively.

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he Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA) urged the commission to pass a Section 104 switch proposal while praising the voluntary standards process that led to agreement between agency staff and an ASTM panel.

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CPSC staff said will consider in its own work recent research by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) into carbon monoxide (CO) emissions by portable generators.

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The ASTM pool drain task group developing new tests for pool drain entrapment August 7 worked to refine a draft test plan for testing entrapment with live human subjects.

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Health Canada is slated this fall and winter to seek public comments on four product areas: general lead, children’s jewelry, cribs, and playpens.

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The volume of products detained by EU customs official for both suspicion of intellectual property violations and health and safety risks roughly doubled between 2012 and 2013.

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Building materials, sports/recreation equipment and furniture were the top products associated with injuries in 2010 to 2012, according to data recently made available from DG.

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through September 22 is seeking comments on methodology used to assess exposure and health effects from lead exposure.

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Briefs on amusement rides, smoke release, combination ovens, convection ovens.

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