MARCH 7, 2016
VOLUME 45 ISSUE 10
PREMIUM CONTENT FROM PRODUCT SAFETY LETTER
Subscriber-Only Story The speeds with which CPSC members would vote on corrective action plans (CAPs) involving deaths could be affected by the recalls' details. Subscriber-Only Story CPSC Chairman Elliot Kaye March 2 told an ICPHSO audience in Washington D.C. that the agency is looking at the possibility of doing more to inform the public when it refers cases to for handling by the Department of Justice. Subscriber-Only Story Concern about increased penalties and need to understand their primary cause – section 15(b) reporting deficiencies – got repeated attention both inside and outside sessions during ICHPSO's Washington D.C. conference. Subscriber-Only Story Whether companies should have a right to explicitly deny that defects exist when making Section 15(b) reports was among numerous issues on which Commissioners Ann Marie Buerkle and Marietta Robinson took opposing sides March 2. Subscriber-Only Story Performance handling tests involving single-driver ATVs are likely to be completed in March, CSPC staff wrote in a progress report made available February 25. Subscriber-Only Story The promise of window covering designs to mitigate strangulation incidents was promoted at a joint press event by CPSC and Health Canada in Washington, D.C. Subscriber-Only Story The U.K. government responses to a February report containing recalls recommendations suggest significant changes in the foreseeable future are unlikely. Subscriber-Only Story The European Commission's new online dispute resolution (ODR) platform is a user-friendly system to settle disagreements about goods and services bought online via alternative dispute resolution (ADR) bodies. Subscriber-Only Story The effectiveness of companies' recall actions are among items mentioned in the just-available 2016 ACCC Compliance and Enforcement Policy. Subscriber-Only Story Send comments by April 11 on a review of mandatory bunk bed requirements by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission. Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on car seats, hook-on chairs, architectural glazing, FoIA logs, CPSC projects, upholstered furniture, GCCs, and more.Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on amusement rides, fire standards, play equipment, pole vaults, coffee makers, control panels, current taps, heaters, and more. Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on consumers, sunbeds, better regulation, toys, beanbag chairs, hair dryers, massagers, mowers, aquarium filters, bubble kits, and more. |