JUNE 27, 2016
VOLUME 45 ISSUE 25
PREMIUM CONTENT FROM PRODUCT SAFETY LETTER
Subscriber-Only Story The House is slated to consider an appropriations bill that would cut CPSC's budget by $3.7 million (nearly 3%) in FY2017. Subscriber-Only Story A trilateral product safety meeting in Beijing June 22 led to agreement for four areas of cooperation.Subscriber-Only Story CPSC received four comments to its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) to update its rules on adjudicative proceedings. Subscriber-Only Story Residential structure fires in 2011 to 2013 led to estimated annual averages of 2,160 civilian deaths and 12,230 injuries, according to a June 17 CPSC report. Subscriber-Only Story Members of an ASTM F15.18 work group June 23 were evenly split on whether to create a separate standard for in-bed sleep products. Subscriber-Only Story The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) June 20 said it handled 45 general consumer product recalls in the first three months of 2016. Subscriber-Only Story CPSC June 16 announced that Lumber Liquidators will continue for three-years a testing program involving installed laminate flooring. Subscriber-Only Story The ASTM ad hoc warning panel June 23 distinguished between short and prolonged sleep in a decision to support a warning suggestion using the word napping.Subscriber-Only Story The safety of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) will be the target of an opinion sought by the EC's Scientific Committee on Health, Environment and Emerging Risks (SCHEER). Subscriber-Only Story The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) June 21 said a "high proportion" of consumer chemical products fail to comply with CLP (classification, labeling, and packaging) rules. Subscriber-Only Story A June 21 report from the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) made four recommendations following its findings about REACH compliance. Subscriber-Only Story The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) June 22 said Online Dealz will pay AU$100,000 under a court order. Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on incident data, bottle warmers, bow scales, computer batteries, hard hats, and more. Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on candles, children's chairs, inclined sleep products, walkways, butane containers, ceiling grids, and more. Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on hoverboards, liquid nicotine, REACH-IT, safe sourcing, EU standards, chemicals, and more. |