The Consumer Product Safety Commission is scheduled to vote by February 11, 2011 on a notice, pursuant to the Consolidated Appropriations Act, which indicates that CPSC's inventory of service contract actions in excess of $25,000 that it awarded in FY 2010 would be made available on CPSC's website.
The Food and Drug Administration is announcing the availability of the draft guidance entitled "Recommended Warning for Surgeon’s Gloves and Patient Examination Gloves that Use Powder," which recommends that the labeling for powdered medical gloves provide a warning related to the potential health effects. Comments on the draft guidance are due by May 9, 2011. FDA has also established a public docket to receive comments regarding risks and benefits of powdered gloves. Comments are due on the docket by April 25, 2011. The draft guidance notice is available here. The docket notice is available here.
The Food and Drug Administration has posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Food and Drug Administration has posted the Import Refusal Report for February 2011. This report covers import refusals involving FDA-regulated products, including cosmetics. The IRR is generated from data collected by FDA's Operational and Administrative System for Import Support (OASIS) and is updated monthly.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published in the Federal Register its provisionally-accepted Settlement Agreement with Raynor Marketing, Ltd., containing a civil penalty of $390,000.00 regarding its import and distribution of defective office chairs and failure to report the defects to CPSC as required. Comments are due by February 19, 2011. (See ITT’s Online Archives or 01/31/11 news, 11013134, for previous BP summary.)
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a closed meeting on February 9, 2011, in which the staff will brief the Commission on various compliance matters.
The Food and Drug Administration has posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published notice of the following voluntary recalls:
Commissioner Adler of the Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted a statement on his lone vote against the recently announced extension of the stay of enforcement on Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act testing and certification for lead content of children's products. He states that consumers are not served by continued extensions of the stay, only industry worried about the costs of third-party testing.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published notice of the following voluntary recall: