Product Safety Letter will not appear April 7, 2025, due to its schedule of 48 issues per year. The next issue, Vol. 54, No. 14, will be April 14, 2025.

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Commissioners' ballots are due April 1 on whether to seek comments for 60 days on a petition on child-resistant ladders for above-ground and portable pools.

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CPSC Acting-Chairman Peter Feldman and his office March 25 promoted references to his statements in a US PIRG report on incidents associated with recalled products.

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CPSC Commissioner Mary Boyle March 21 pointed to Reese's Law on button and coin cell batteries to highlight the role of dedicated regulations in CPSC imports work.

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CPSC's duties under CPSA 29(e) and (f) likely will be key in its review of how and if it can ensure 6(b) protection in complying with an executive order for government-wide access to agencies' information.

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What the term public safety means in recent executive orders has gained more importance now that it is one of four criteria to focus Justice Department scrutiny of attorneys who have represented clients against the government in the last eight years.

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A March 20 executive order dictates that, pending rulemaking, CPSC and other agencies would need to fire staffers within five days if directed to do so by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) over "suitability."

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Briefs on activity centers, sensory toys, and micromobility batteries, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings.

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Heroes Technologies, maker of Snuggle Me, March 13 asked the D.C. circuit U.S. appeals court to stay the May effective date of CPSC's infant support cushion rule.

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Amazon March 14 made six arguments that a federal court should overturn CPSC's order in the forced recall action against the company.

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Amazon March 14 supported its argument against CPSC commissioners' firing protections by citing the letter from the Solicitor General office that said DOJ would urge that such protections be overruled.

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Commissioner Mary Boyle March 14 praised a House bill that would direct a CPSC pilot project on using artificial intelligence in its mission.

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Emissions from gas stoves are potentially harmful, but ventilation can mitigate the risks, according to a March 18 report from the Government Accountability Office.

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California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment March 13 reported that its risk assessment found little health risk form synthetic turf on athletic fields.

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CPSC is using a blanket disclaimer that historical documents on its website might not comply with a January executive order on gender.

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CPSC has reverted to giving NEISS coders three numbers to process hospitals' descriptions of sex and gender.

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About 42% of European respondents to a 2024 EC consumer survey reported not seeing a recall notice in the preceding two years.

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Australia should update its system for electrical product safety, recommends a March 13 report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

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Briefs on poisoning, li-ion batteries, CO detectors, mattresses, play yards, CPSC FoIA, carbon monoxide, infant sleep, e-bike fires, and reporting, plus the regular charts on recalls/corrections, standards activities, and CPSC meetings.

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CPSC's duties under CPSA 29(e) and (f) likely will be key in its review of how and if it can ensure 6(b) protection in complying with an executive order for government-wide access to agencies' information.

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What the term public safety means in recent executive orders has gained more importance now that it is one of four criteria to focus Justice Department scrutiny of attorneys who have represented clients against the government in the last eight years.

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CPSC is using a blanket disclaimer that historical documents on its website might not comply with a January executive order on gender.

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CPSC has reverted to giving NEISS coders three numbers to process hospitals' descriptions of sex and gender.

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A March 11 executive order directs agencies to be aggressive in asking judges to require bonds from those seeking preliminary injunctions against the government.

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CPSC will be neither obliged nor prohibited in providing materials in non-English under a March 1 executive order.

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CPSC publicly posted two February 26 memos to staff against harassment and employment discrimination.

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CPSC and other agencies must have two "technological system[s]" under a February 26 executive order.

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CPSC and other agencies must review their statutes under a February 26 guidance from the Office of Management and Budget and Office of Personnel Managements.

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If anything is clear from the tornado of executive orders in recent weeks, it is that trying to predict how an agency might operate over the next four years is a fool’s errand.

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Policy and legal decisions at CPSC and other regulatory agencies are under more direct White House control via a February 17 executive order.

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A February 18 executive order lays out classification criteria for regulations with an aim towards picking those to amend or eliminate.

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The Department of Justice is set to ask the Supreme Court to overturn the legal precedent used to support the Consumer Product Safety Act's protection against at-will firing of CPSC commissioners and similar shields for other agencies.

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The February 11 executive order that could reduce federal staffing by as much as 75% also contains a provision for agency heads to report on statutorily required activities.

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Commissioners did not reach a majority vote so will take no action on a Nested Bean demand to update safe sleep guidelines regarding weighted infant sleep products.

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Commissioners approved the e-filing implementation rule with an extended general effective date of 18 months from publication.

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Standards development organizations (SDOs) such as ASTM and UL rely heavily on CPSC’s incident data to inform their standards development process.

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CPSC International Programs staff would move towards virtual training of foreign companies under the FY2025 Operating Plan commissioners approved 5-0 November 6.

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CPSC staffers October 4 repeated recent years' approach to the Operating Plan, giving two funding scenarios to consider for FY2025.

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Democratic CPSC Commissioners August 21 cast two votes against a retraction request from Dreamland Baby and to send the firm an explanatory letter.