Product Safety Letter will not appear March 27, 2023, due to its schedule of 48 issues per year. The next issue, Vol. 52, No. 13, will be April 3, 2023.

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CPSC's FY2024 budget request, if granted, would give it 39.4% raise over its current funding.

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CPSC hit or exceeded 17 of 24 performance goals in FY2022, according to a March 9 performance report.

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The European Commission March 13 attributed a slight decrease in Safety Gate alerts from 2021 to 2022 to dips in motor vehicle sales.

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The EC's "webcrawler" tool for e-commerce surveillance in 2022 aided national authorities in identifying 5,068 online offers of products deemed unsafe.

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UL 2201 likely reduces fatalities better but PGMA G300 better ensures safety system operation, suggested staff at a March 15 commission briefing on carbon monoxide and portable generators.

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CPSC staffers plan to collect three additional types of information for use in commission consideration of firewalled lab applications.

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CPSC staff in February urged steps targeting fires with portable electric heaters.

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Most tested combinations of odorants, refrigerants, and lubricants had acceptable material compatibility in a CPSC contractor review.

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Commissioner Peter Feldman March 9 reiterated his past concerns about small, flocked toys and their accessories.

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Eleven Senators March 7 wrote CPSC urging focus on the STURDY Act directives to evaluate ASTM F2057-23 for possible adoption.

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Toys and clothing were the main increases in a March 14 study by Kids in Danger (KID) that also found an overall increase in children's products recalls during 2022.

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Some aromatic brominated flame retardants are good candidates for restrictions in products, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) said March 15.

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E-commerce site Booktopia will pay AU$6 million in an Australian court order involving consumer guarantee representations.

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Products' chemical risks related to recycling are driven by functional additives, according to a March 16 report by the UK Office for Product Safety & Standards (OPSS).

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A quarter of downstream companies did not use chemicals as authorized in REACH restrictions, according to a recent report by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).

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Briefs on PFAS, zinc air batteries, gas stoves, CO detectors, bike helmets, baby gates, and angle grinders, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings.