AUGUST 23, 2021
VOLUME 50 ISSUE 31
PREMIUM CONTENT FROM PRODUCT SAFETY LETTER
Subscriber-Only Story CPSC, with little fanfare, August 17 announced the mandatory recall of some 10 million individual magnets sold mostly in sets by Zen Magnets. Subscriber-Only Story The lawsuit targeting CPSC incorporation of voluntary standards should not have been dismissed as too late, lawyers for the petitioner argued August 16.Subscriber-Only Story November 15 is the deadline for a new round of comments on the possibility of revising EU rules on chemical classification, labeling, and packaging (CLP). Subscriber-Only Story Decathlon will pay AU$1.5 million for selling basketball rings/backboards and portable swimming pools deemed to violate mandatory warning and labeling requirements. Subscriber-Only Story Succinct warnings address only information needed by consumers, an ASTM F15.74 panel decided August 17. Subscriber-Only Story Data limitations mean that a still-developing UL method to assess the positive effects of voluntary standards can suggest such results likely do exist but measuring the magnitude remains difficult. Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on environmental justice, North America, and fire risk & poverty, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings. |