JANUARY 25, 2021
VOLUME 50 ISSUE 4
PREMIUM CONTENT FROM PRODUCT SAFETY LETTER
Subscriber-Only Story CPSC Acting Chairman Bob Adler January 15 wrote the Senate committee and subcommittee that oversee the agency seeking aid in getting COVID-19 vaccines for staffers whose duties make social distancing difficult. Subscriber-Only Story CPSC missed five of 25 performance goals in FY2020, and it did not have data for two. Subscriber-Only Story CPSC staff January 19 explained that they had not yet discussed the effects on its flame-retardant research of the recently passed mandate to move towards adopting California's TB-117-2013 into its upholstered furniture flammability rules.Subscriber-Only Story A late December open letter from Health Canada gives additional advice on the nation's mandates for flammability and children's costumes. Subscriber-Only Story The EU's REACH system has had a positive cost-benefit effect, according to a January 13 report from the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). Subscriber-Only Story A pilot program for the UK's Primary Authority system found three benefits and four challenges. Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on child strength, infant swings, regulatory review, deregulation, regulations, rulemaking freeze. |