NOVEMBER 21, 2022
VOLUME 51 ISSUE 44
PREMIUM CONTENT FROM PRODUCT SAFETY LETTER
Subscriber-Only Story A statistically significant increase during 2021 for CPSC's nursery product injury estimates likely was due to people avoiding emergency rooms during 2020 because of the pandemic. Subscriber-Only Story Commissioners voted 0-4 against a finding that there are safety improvements in ASTM F2613-22 on children's chairs and stools. Subscriber-Only Story Commissioners' votes were due near the PSL deadline on publishing CPSC staff responses to comments on a cost/benefit analysis of DINP restrictions. Subscriber-Only Story Commissioners' votes were due near the PSL deadline on incorporating revisions to the ASTM infant walker standard. Subscriber-Only Story The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) November 16 announced that it will target imports in a compliance surveillance project to begin next year. Subscriber-Only Story CPSC in the first half of November made three unilateral announcements targeting the safety of specific products. Subscriber-Only Story The deadline to use the UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) mark is pushed back to the end of 2024, that nation's Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy announced November 14. Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on baby gates, adult bedrails, tipovers, textiles, safe sleep, child safety, pools, e-commerce, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings. |