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MARCH 20, 2023
VOLUME 52   ISSUE 12

 

PREMIUM CONTENT FROM PRODUCT SAFETY LETTER

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.