MAY 27, 2019
VOLUME 48 ISSUE 20
PREMIUM CONTENT FROM PRODUCT SAFETY LETTER
Subscriber-Only Story CPSC members May 21 voted 2-3 against a motion by Commissioner Dana Baiocco to bring in a detailee from FBI, DOJ or similar agency to investigate the large disclosure of information outside 6(b) procedures. Subscriber-Only Story CPSC Acting Chairman Ann Marie Buerkle May 21 clarified the intended temporary nature of placing review of Information Clearinghouse releases under the FoIA system.Subscriber-Only Story CPSC is redacting contact details of non-agency people from at least meeting logs. Subscriber-Only Story Commissioners May 21 removed a single, expensive project with the aim of making many more eligible for funding under the midyear budget update. Subscriber-Only Story Residential fires accounted for almost 78% of structure fires in 2013 to 2017, according to recent data from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Subscriber-Only Story Watch for a CPSC report on battery packing in the coming weeks. Staffers May 20 told the Button Battery Task force that they have been putting U.S. and some Japanese products through child-resistance assessment.Subscriber-Only Story The New York legislature is moving towards a law that would ban sale of crib bumpers in the state and prohibit some uses. Subscriber-Only Story The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) May 15 said its recent review finds against the feasibility of regulating organohalogen flame retardants (OFRs) as a single class but suggested such an approach might be possible for 14 subclasses. Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on virtual reality, toys, car seats, sex toys, flame retardants, and food-contact material, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings. |