DECEMBER 18, 2023
VOLUME 52 ISSUE 48
PREMIUM CONTENT FROM PRODUCT SAFETY LETTER
Subscriber-Only Story Commissioners December 14, during oral arguments in the appeal of CPSC's forced recall case with Amazon, spent large portions of questioning time focused on the ecommerce company's status as a distributor versus a third-party logistics provider. Subscriber-Only Story The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) December 13 said it found a roughly 20% failure rate for products tested for chemicals compliance. Subscriber-Only Story Six Senators December 6 asked CPSC to withdraw its debris penetration rulemaking for off-highway vehicles (OHVs). Subscriber-Only Story PFAS alternatives for apparel are among the targets in a just-issued Washington State regulatory report on PFAS. Subscriber-Only Story Self-extinguishing button batteries, identifying product safety issues via online reviews, and considering diversity in robot safety were the winning topics in the research section of the EU Product Safety Awards announced December 11. Subscriber-Only Story Button batteries and consumer guarantees were the topics of penalties announced in early December by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC).Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on table saws, gas furnaces/boilers, e-filing, magnet sets, crib bumpers, chemicals tests, chemicals data, chemicals policy, reusable products, and gas hobs, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings. |