JANUARY 2, 2023
VOLUME 52 ISSUE 1
PREMIUM CONTENT FROM PRODUCT SAFETY LETTER
Subscriber-Only Story CPSC's budget for the ongoing fiscal year is $152.5 million under the appropriations act signed December 29.Subscriber-Only Story Leachco must provide electronic communications sought by CPSC in the administrative suit targeting a forced recall of infant loungers. Subscriber-Only Story CPSC December 19 wrote to manufacturers of micromobility products that they should follow two UL standards. Subscriber-Only Story Twenty legislators called on CPSC to look at indoor air emissions of nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and fine particulate matter from gas stoves. Subscriber-Only Story A new UK risk assessment methodology comes with a spreadsheet "toolkit" to guide regulators through various considerations. Subscriber-Only Story Reporting changes are behind the European Chemicals Agency's December 19 observation that Brexit increased the EU's import/export of certain hazardous chemicals in 2021. Subscriber-Only Story Commissioner Richard Trumka December 22 explained that he abstained from voting on Target's recall of weighted blankets due to a receipt provision. Subscriber-Only Story Commissioners voted 4-0 to determine that three voluntary standards are sufficient for the mandates of the 2020 portable fuel container law. Subscriber-Only Story A pair of CPSC delegation votes in mid-December involved cruelty-free testing and human subject protections. Subscriber-Only Story Comment by February 23 on European Commission draft regulation aimed at classification, labeling, and packaging (CLP) under the EU Green Deal. Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on Lawrence Kushner, unilateral warnings, CPSC strategy, window coverings, ROVs, imports, machinery, surface coating, and magnet sets, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings. |