APRIL 28, 2025
VOLUME 54 ISSUE 16
PREMIUM CONTENT FROM PRODUCT SAFETY LETTER
Subscriber-Only Story CPSC's regulatory policy officer is General Counsel Matthew Campbell, and its regulatory second is Daniel Vice, an attorney in Campbell's office. Subscriber-Only Story CPSC has set April 30 for a decisional meeting on publishing a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) on lithium-ion batteries in micromobility products. Subscriber-Only Story Commissioner Richard Trumka April 23 called for "fast" movement towards enforcing the nursing pillow rule that became effective that day. Subscriber-Only Story Consumer Federation of America (CFA) and National Consumers League (NCL) reacted negatively to the end of CPSC's gathering of certain injury data outside its jurisdiction. Subscriber-Only Story PSL has seen no explicit information about whether and how organizations writing about or reacting to a supposedly leaked budget document authenticated it.Subscriber-Only Story At least three consumer groups have spoken out against a possible plan for CPSC to be absorbed into the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Subscriber-Only Story Enacting a supposed plan for CPSC to be absorbed into the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) likely would face legal challenges citing the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA). Subscriber-Only Story CPSC and other federal agencies must show that they favor commercial rather than custom products and services under and April 16 executive order. Subscriber-Only Story Briefs on submersible LEDs, magnet sets, and furniture, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings. |