MARCH 29, 2021
VOLUME 50 ISSUE 13
PREMIUM CONTENT FROM PRODUCT SAFETY LETTER
Subscriber-Only Story Commissioners March 25 voted 3-1 to pass the midyear update to funding CPSC projects. Subscriber-Only Story CPSC needs to fully explain how it will use $50 million recently added to its budget, four congressional Republicans wrote March 23. Subscriber-Only Story CPSC will seek stakeholder input and ideas for scientifically valid cruelty-free data methods. Subscriber-Only Story The congressional directive that CPSC adopt California's TB-117-2013 as the federal flammability standard for upholstered furniture has prompted agency legal staff to suggest commissioners also look at terminating a related 2008 rulemaking. Subscriber-Only Story Commissioner Elliot Kaye March 17 called for six CPSC targets on infant sleep safety. Subscriber-Only Story Nearly three of five residential fire deaths occur in without smoke alarms present, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) wrote in its recent report covering 2014-2-2018. Subscriber-Only Story Thirteen states plus New York City and Washington, D.C., March 22 sued the EPA related to risk evaluation of 1,4-dioxane. Subscriber-Only Story Two recent reports from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) address federal science and safety work. Subscriber-Only Story A California Assembly bill targeting perfuoroalkyl and polyfuoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in juvenile products was set for discussion at a Bureau of Household Goods and Services advisory council session near the PSL deadline. Subscriber-Only Story The New Zealand Commerce Commission March 22 announced two fines and a warning for product safety issues. Subscriber-Only Story The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) March 22 said it has five product safety priorities for 2021. Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on poison, highchairs, ammo/tackle plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings. |