The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published its provisional settlement agreement with CVS Pharmacy, Inc. in the Federal Register for comment. In the agreement, CPSC staff alleges that the company “knowingly” failed to immediately report that it had sold children’s hooded jackets with drawstrings which later became the subject of a voluntary recall.

The Food and Drug Administration has made available two presentations on the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) -- one provides an overview of the new law, and the other focuses on its import safety provisions, which FDA states are the most groundbreaking shift of the FSMA. Both also list the implemented FSMA provisions.

The International Trade Administration has issued a notice announcing the availability of grant funds in calendar year 2011 for U.S. manufacturers of certain worsted wool fabrics, pursuant to the Miscellaneous Trade and Technical Corrections Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-429), as amended by P.L. 110-343.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a proposed rule, at the request of certain manufacturers and testing labs, to clarify and correct its durable infant or toddler product consumer registration form requirements. Comments are due by October 24, 2011.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a final rule, effective September 6, 2011, which incorporates by reference the successor pool and spa drain cover standard, ANSI/APSP-16 2011, into its regulations implementing the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act (VGB Act).

On July 28, 2011, the U.S. International Trade Commission released “The Year in Trade 2010,” its annual overview of the previous year's trade-related activities.

Coinstar’s Redbox will expand videogame rentals to 27,000 kiosks by the end of Q3, with a goal having the category account for 7 percent of Redbox’s revenue by year-end, CEO Paul Davis said on an earnings call.

The Food and Drug Administration is announcing the fiscal year 2012 fee rates for certain import reinspections, domestic and foreign facility reinspections, and recall activities performed by FDA if a firm fails to comply with a mandatory recall order, all of which are mandated in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended by the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is seeking comments on a petition to require special packaging for torch fuel and lamp oil to make it impossible to see the product when it is in the container, as the liquid may look like a drink to children.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a proposed rule that would amend CPSC's mandatory standard for all-terrain vehicles, which is currently the 2007 "ANSI Standard for Four-Wheel All-Terrain Vehicles Equipment Configuration and Performance Requirements," developed by the Specialty Vehicle Institute of America (ANSI/SVIA 1-2007). The proposed rule would update CPSC's mandatory ATV standard, which covers both adult and youth versions of ATVs, to reference the 2010, not the 2007, version of the ANSI/SVIA standard.