APRIL 10, 2023
VOLUME 52 ISSUE 14
PREMIUM CONTENT FROM PRODUCT SAFETY LETTER
Subscriber-Only Story SunSetter Products faces three civil penalty counts in federal court over allegations of late reporting of incidents associated with awning covers. Subscriber-Only Story CPSC staff March 29 urged numerous budget updates to the FY2023 operating plan to align it with appropriated funding. Subscriber-Only Story Commissioners April 4 voted 4-0 to follow CPSC staffers' recommendation to deny two 2021 petitions on play yard mattresses. Subscriber-Only Story Burdens with testing and labeling of coin/button batteries for both non-children's products and battery packaging are the targets of an upcoming CPSC Federal Register notice. Subscriber-Only Story CPSC's human capital program needs improvements, its Inspector General (IG) office asserted March 30 based on a contractors' review. Subscriber-Only Story Commissioners voted 4-0 to publish, with amendments, a notice of prosed rulemaking (NPR) on portable generators and carbon monoxide (CO) risks. Subscriber-Only Story Roughly three-quarters of problem products identified by EU officials get taken down within two working days under that economy's pledge program for e-commerce platforms. Subscriber-Only Story Canada's Consumer Product Safety Program handled 2,234 reports in the year that ended March 31, 2021, according to just released data from Health Canada. Subscriber-Only Story Product safety and similar concerns with artificial intelligence (AI) do not fit neatly into existing frameworks, the UK government acknowledged March 29.Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on e-bikes, recalls, Trumka, window falls, and tornados, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings. |