Commissioners Nord and Northup of the Consumer Product Safety Commission have posted blogs applauding the Commission's 4-1 vote to extend the stay of enforcement on Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act testing and certification for lead content of children's products. They state that the extension has not undermined safety as the underlying lead content limits remain in effect - it simply gives business more time to implement third-party testing regimes and to respond to expected CPSC final rules on component parts and on testing and labeling.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a press release and comments by Chairman Tenenbaum and other Commissioners on CPSC's recent decision to extend the stay of enforcement for testing and certification of lead content in children’s products (except for metal components of children’s metal jewelry) until December 31, 2011. According to the press release and Tenenbaum's statement, the underlying lead content limits must still be met and the agency will enforce these limits, regardless of the size of the manufacturer. Only CPSC's enforcement of third-party testing and manufacturer/importer certification of compliance is stayed.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has updated its list of meetings between CPSC and industry stakeholders that are open to the public, unless otherwise stated:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published notice of the following voluntary recall:
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 issued a Federal Register notice on its decision to extend the general stay of enforcement on the third-party testing and certification requirements for youth all-terrain vehicles until November 27, 2011, subject to certain measures and conditions. (See below for details of a more specific stay on the lead content of certain parts of youthATVs.1)
The Food and Drug Administration has posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
A review provided to the Consumer Product Safety Commission by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Environmental Health finds that there is no evidence linking exposure to problem drywall and 11 reported deaths. The CDC review confirms the results of previous reviews conducted by CPSC into these deaths, which also found no link to problem drywall.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced that Raynor Marketing Ltd. of West Hempstead, NY has agreed to a civil penalty of $390,000 to resolve CPSC staff allegations that it was aware of a defect involving office chairs it sold to consumers, as well incidents and injuries, yet the firm failed to report them immediately to CPSC as required by federal law. The penalty agreement has been accepted provisionally by the Commission.
The Food and Drug Administration has posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of: