JUNE 17, 2019
VOLUME 48 ISSUE 23
PREMIUM CONTENT FROM PRODUCT SAFETY LETTER
Subscriber-Only Story Commissioners are slated to cast ballot votes by June 18 on a CPSC staff recommendation to terminate the inclined sleepers notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR). Subscriber-Only Story New bills to modernize the fast track recall system and to ban inclined sleepers and crib bumpers were among topics a House panel addressed June 13. Subscriber-Only Story IT security is the reason CPSC's inspector general (IG) did not make an IT security report public. Subscriber-Only Story The next step by a large stakeholder group looking at connected devices for cooktops will be to understand the market. Subscriber-Only Story CPSC got mostly favorable comments to a proposal to change certain mower warnings to pictorial only.Subscriber-Only Story Jake's Fireworks this spring sued in Maryland U.S. district court against CPSC's use of its audible effects test. Subscriber-Only Story FDA in early June added two products to recalls involving asbestos in children's makeup. Subscriber-Only Story Three Democratic senators June 10 called for CPSC and Department of Commerce action to ensure that toy, imitation, and non-powder guns all look different from each other. Subscriber-Only Story The U.K. Office for Product Safety and Standards will be among the agencies tasked with outlining regulatory approaches for handling new technologies. Subscriber-Only Story Give input by August 30 on an EC move to look at updating the Machinery Directive. Subscriber-Only Story Widespread reports in the British press the week of June 10 – concerning the imminence of an action related to a recall of Whirlpool clothes dryers – were rooted in comments by a member of Parliament familiar with the situation. Subscriber-Only Story The New York legislature recently passed a bill to require retailers to sell clothing storage units (CSUs) with restraints. Subscriber-Only Story Newly-passed Maine legislation would add phthalates, PFAS, and "chemicals of concern" to restrictions for food-contact materials. Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on Zen, highchairs, activity centers, and winter safety, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings. |