Whistlebower Protection under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) Under the CPSIA, 15 U.S.C. §2087, whistleblower protection is offered for employees who are discharged or discriminated against by manufacturers, private labelers, distributors, and/or retailers, because they gave or are giving information to the employer, Federal Government, or attorney general regarding violations of any provision […]
Children’s toys manufactured or imported after June 12, 2012, must comply with all mandatory sections of the recently revised ASTM F963-11. Manufacturers and importers should continue using a CPSC-accepted third party laboratory for the sections of ASTM F963-08 that did not change in ASTM F963-11. However, for new or revised sections of ASTM F963-11 that […]
When companies learn of a dangerous product flaw, they have a duty to alert the authorities. Yet, there was a startling rise in the number of firms that tried to dodge this responsibility in 2011. April 20, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ — Every day, you rely on thousands of manufactured products. From the brakes on your […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 5, 2012 Release #12-142 CPSC Hotline: (800) 638-2772 CPSC Media Contact: Carl Purvis, (301) 504-7805 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Investigators with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) prevented more than half a million violative and hazardous imported products from reaching the hands of consumers in the first quarter of fiscal year […]
Effective from April 1, 2012, Hong Kong has recently updated two toy safety standards and realigns the standards to reflect changes to European, Australia/New Zealand and United States standards for eight children’s product categories. The government of Hong Kong published the Toys and Children’s Product Safety Ordinance (Amendment of Schedules 1 and 2) Notice 2011 […]
Yesterday was the last full day of the 2012 ICPHSO Annual Meeting and Training Symposium. The day featured a keynote by U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Chairman Inez Moore Tenenbaum (pictured delivering the keynote) Some of her key points: CPSC is being proactive at ports. In 2010 & 2011, 6.5M units of over 2,000 products […]
FEBRUARY 28, 2012 BY THOMAS FOX Can compliance be innovative? Or can innovation inform your compliance program? Can some of the techniques and strategies of the world’s most innovative companies be brought to bear in the field of anti-corruption and anti-bribery? I thought about those questions, and perhaps some others, while reading the March issue of Fast […]
Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 35 / Wednesday, February 22, 2012 / Rules and Regulation CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION 16 CFR Chapter II Acceptance of ASTM F963–11 as a Mandatory Consumer Product Safety Standard AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety Commission. ACTION: Acceptance of standard. SUMMARY: The Consumer Product Safety Commission (‘‘CPSC,’’ Commission,’’ or ‘we’’) is announcing that we have accepted the […]
There has been a lot of confusion on what information needs to be included in a Children’s Product Certificate (CPC). While the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has not given any guidance on the format of a CPC they have given detailed instructions on the type of information which needs to be included in a […]
From Toy Industry Association (TIA) February 14, 2012 | Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Chairman Inez Tenenbaum spoke to an audience of more than 300 toy industry stakeholders this morning in a keynote address delivered at the Toy Industry Association’s (TIA) annual Toy Safety Compliance Update. Chairman Tenenbaum shared the CPSC’s progress in 2011 – including […]