DECEMBER 9, 2019
VOLUME 48 ISSUE 46
PREMIUM CONTENT FROM PRODUCT SAFETY LETTER
Subscriber-Only Story CPSC missed seven of 25 performance measure goals in FY2019. Subscriber-Only Story CPSC staff might host a lab session on testing restraints for clothing storage units (CSUs) although the timing is undetermined. Subscriber-Only Story An ASTM F15 ad hoc juvenile products language panel December 2 decided to recommend parallel language for two disposal statements regarding button and coin cells. Subscriber-Only Story CPSC got four comments, three supportive, to its proposed update of Section 104 rules on non-full-size cribs and play yards. Subscriber-Only Story CPSC would get power to tell companies to calculate their recall-promotion budgets based on earlier marketing expenses under a recent House bill. Subscriber-Only Story Falls have cemented their place as the top cause of unintentional death due to traumatic brain injury (TBI). Subscriber-Only Story CPSC needs improvements in how it tracks leased property, according to a November report from its inspector general (IG) office. Subscriber-Only Story EU regulators get high marks from retailers on product safety enforcement, according to the EC's 2019 Consumer Conditions Scoreboard.Subscriber-Only Story The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) December 4 explained that it has organized a list of more than 21,000 substances into five broad categories. Subscriber-Only Story EPA promoted the November 22 compliance date of the ban on sales of paint removers with methylene chloride. Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on OFRs, crib bumpers, toddler beds, inclined sleepers, toys, scooters, holiday fires, emerging technologies, SCHEER, nanoforms, risky plays, recalls, holiday shopping plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings. |