MAY 9, 2022
VOLUME 51 ISSUE 18
PREMIUM CONTENT FROM PRODUCT SAFETY LETTER
Subscriber-Only Story Inclined sleepers and crib bumpers are set to become banned hazardous products with final Senate passage of HR 3182. Subscriber-Only Story Commissioners' votes were due near the PSL deadline on whether to docket a petition that seeks minimum and maximum thicknesses for play yard mattresses plus tolerance provisions related to gaps. Subscriber-Only Story CPSC was compliant with the Payment Integrity Information Act during FY2021, according to a contractor report prepared for the CPSC inspector general (IG) office. Subscriber-Only Story Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI) and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) May 2 began a campaign on shocks and fires associated with "alternative energy technologies." Subscriber-Only Story Health Canada May 4 pointed stakeholders to two comment periods ending July 4 and involving flammability standards. Subscriber-Only Story The European Parliament's Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) committee May 3 adopted a report that moves work forward on updating the machinery directive. Subscriber-Only Story The U.K Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) April 27 said it was updating restrictions of substances used in toys. Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on CPSC priorities, demographics, garage doors, third-party testing, e-scooters, PFAS, and traceability, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings. |