The Consumer Product Safety Commission has reached provisional settlement agreements with eight firms in order to settle allegations that the firms' children's hooded sweatshirts or jackets - sold with drawstrings at the hood and neck - did not meet the CPSC's 1996 Guidelines or ASTM F1816-97, failed to comport with the CPSC's May 2006 defect notice, and posed a strangulation hazard to children.
On April 25 2008, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative released its 2008 "Special 301" annual report on the adequacy and effectiveness of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection by U.S. trading partners.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a notice announcing that it will hold a public one-day roundtable on understanding the pending lead legislation and the use of lead in consumer products on May 13, 2008 in Bethesda, MD.
The Food and Drug Administration has issued an interim final rule, effective July 16, 2008, which will allow cattle-derived materials from negligible risk countries to be excluded from the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) - related prohibition on the use of such materials in human food (including dietary supplements) and cosmetics.
The Food and Drug Administration has issued a notice announcing that it will hold a public hearing on antimicrobial resistance on April 28, 2008 in Rockville, MD.
Better Wii and DS hardware supplies helped those systems again finish as the top sellers in the U.S. for March, NPD data released Thursday show. Wii, swapping places with DS from February (CED March 17 p6), became No. 1, selling about 721,000 units -- more than rivals PS3 and Xbox 360 combined.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued a press release announcing that, effective March 28, 2008, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Mexico's Secretara de Agricultura, and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency have established protocols for the export of U.S. and Canadian cattle to Mexico.
The Food and Drug Administration has issued an April 2008 guidance for industry, which summarizes the required statements that must appear on food labels under federal laws governing food products under FDA's jurisdiction and their regulations.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has issued a final rule, effective May 2, 2008, that will amend 9 CFR Part 94 to state that uncooked pork or pork products that originated in a region considered to be free of classical swine fever (CSF) and are processed in a region where CSF exists may be imported into the U.S. under certain conditions.
The Office of U.S. Trade Representative has released its 2008 National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers (NTE), which is an annual report documenting foreign trade and investment barriers and U.S. actions to reduce and eliminate those barriers.