FEBRUARY 15, 2021
VOLUME 50 ISSUE 7
PREMIUM CONTENT FROM PRODUCT SAFETY LETTER
Subscriber-Only Story Cybex will pay $7.95 million to settle CPSC reporting allegations. Subscriber-Only Story Two CPSC management challenges were featured February 3 by the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency. Subscriber-Only Story Fire departments responded to an annual estimated average of 48,530 home structure fires caused by heating equipment in 2014-2018. Subscriber-Only Story The EU's Product Safety Pledge has shown promising results in protecting consumers, but it does have an underlying weakness of relying on the good faith of voluntary participants, according to a February report for the European Parliament. Subscriber-Only Story A February report for the European Parliament lauded the current Consumer Agenda as seeking to address gaps in product safety oversight. Subscriber-Only Story The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) February 4 said that it is aims – by 2027 – to finish work on all REACH registered substances of very high concern (SVHCs). Subscriber-Only Story Comment by March 19 on the draft 2021-2023 product work plan from the California Department of Toxic Substances Control. Subscriber-Only Story Health Canada received 540 product reports in the fourth quarter of calendar 2020, according to its data made available February. Subscriber-Only Story The advocacy group Safer States February 3 said it expects at least 27 states to consider over 180 bills targeting chemical toxicity. Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on firearms, plastics, OHVs, EU policy, and ICPHSO plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings. |