updated Mon. September 30, 2024
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Lexology
April 19, 2018
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced potential changes to its 2002 Age Determination Guidelines Relating Children's Ages to Toy Characteristics and Play Behavior (2002 Guidelines). The new draft guidance, titled Guidelines for Determining Age Appropriateness of ToysÃâà...
Law360
April 18, 2018
Law360 (April 17, 2018, 12:40 PM EDT) -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is a small federal agency with a big job: protecting consumers from unreasonable risks of injury from more than 15,000 types of products. The CPSC uses safety data submitted by companies pursuant to the notification requirementsÃâà...
KATV
April 12, 2018
Every one of these recalls issued by the Consumer Product Safety Commission during the first ten days of April involve products that have been deemed burn or fire hazards. Let's start with a recall involving a big-ticket item: over 100,000 recreational off-highway vehicles sold over the past five years haveÃâà...
Duluth News Tribune
April 3, 2018
The baby registry staple many a new parent uses for holding or — especially if it vibrates — relaxing a baby was involved in 347 incidents reported to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission between Jan. 1, 2006, and July 6, 2016. Of those 347, there were injuries in 54 incidents and deaths in 12.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
April 3, 2018
Polaris Industries will pay a record $27.25 million civil penalty to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to settle two 2016 late-reporting claims involving defective recreational vehicles that were at risk of fire and later recalled. The settlement announced Monday was the agency's first majorÃâà...
The Coloradoan
April 1, 2018
Poudre Fire Authority is encouraging Fort Collins residents to check their smoke detectors after a recall announcement last week. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled Kidde dual sensor smoke alarms, models PI2010 and PI901. The model number is printed on the front of the smokeÃâà...
New Canaan Advertiser
March 30, 2018
The New Canaan Fire Marshal's office informs the public that Kidde Corporation, in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, has announced a recall of nearly one half million smoke detectors due to risk of failure to alert. The detectors were sold between September 2016 andÃâà...
Mondaq News Alerts
March 29, 2018
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that on May 16, 2018, it will hold a public hearing on "potential safety issues and hazards associated with internet-connected consumer products." The Commission will hear testimony from interested stakeholders on potential safetyÃâà...
CNET
March 29, 2018
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is holding a public hearing regarding the safety of internet-of-things (IoT) devices. The hearing was announced in a notice published on the Federal Register Wednesday. Safety consulting and certification company Underwriters Laboratories (UL)Ãâà...
Jackson County Times-Journal
March 22, 2018
The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is recalling Kidde dual-sensor (photoelectric and ionization) smoke alarms—models PI2010 and PI9010 because they could fail to work in the event of a fire. The smoke alarms installed by the Red Cross are NOT part of the CPSC recall.
WSFA
March 14, 2018
(CPSC/CNN) – According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Amazon has recalled its portable power banks due to fire and chemical burn hazards. The power bank's battery can overheat and ignite. According to the recall alert, Amazon has received 53 reports of the power banksÃâà...
The Verge
March 13, 2018
Amazon is recalling six models of its AmazonBasics Portable Power Banks in cooperation with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. The power banks, sold between December 2014 and July 2017, have a risk of overheating, which can cause the unit to melt, posing a fire hazard. The affectedÃâà...
fox2now.com
March 8, 2018
ST. LOUIS, Mo. -Patty Davis, from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, joined FOX 2 via satellite from Washington D.C. to discuss the Anchor It! campaign. It is the next step to help avoid furniture tip over by children. The product is anchored into the wall and can be used on all types of furniture toÃâà...
FOX 5 DC
March 6, 2018
The manufacturer, Double Insight, warns customers to stop using the “Gem 65 8-in-1 Multicookers with batchcodes 1728, 1730, 1731, 1734 and 1746.” The code can be found on the rating label on the underside of the Instant Pot. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reports about 104,000 unitsÃâà...
10TV
March 6, 2018
The Atlanta-based baby products manufacturer has received 38 reports of the rear leg of the Table2Table 6-in-1 chairs pivoting out of position, with five children getting bumps and bruises when the product fell over, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The recall involves aboutÃâà...
The Hill
March 6, 2018
... by Russians Shulkin says he has White House approval to root out 'subversion' at VA MORE has re-nominated U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Acting Chairman Ann Marie Buerkle to be designated chairman in spite of consumer groups voicing their strong and appropriate opposition.
KXAN.com
March 5, 2018
The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the front wheel of B.O.B. jogging strollers made by Britax Child Safety, Inc., can detach from the stroller sending the front fork digging into the ground and causing it to suddenly stop and tip over. They say they've received reports of 100 people injured — kidsÃâà...
The Hill
March 4, 2018
More than a year into the Trump administration there is one government agency that is continuing to push the Obama administration's excessive regulatory agenda: The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). CPSC, which regulates over 15,000 products worth billions of dollars to the AmericanÃâà...
ConsumerReports.org
March 2, 2018
Instant Pot's parent company, Double Insight, reported to the Consumer Product Safety Commission that it had received 107 reports of the multi-cookers overheating, including five that resulted in minor property damage. No injuries have been cited. Instant Pot makes 14 models, and the Gem 65 8-in-1 is theÃâà...
Law360
March 1, 2018
Law360 (March 1, 2018, 2:21 PM EST) -- Zen Magnets LLC has urged a Colorado federal court to vacate an October order by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalling the company's spherical magnets over safety concerns, saying the commissioners have improper biases against the products. The companyÃâà...
Arkansas Online
March 1, 2018
Lee, a former trial lawyer and compliance officer for toy safety at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, originally filed as a challenger to state Rep. Andy Davis, R-Little Rock, who has fended off several Democrats in the past. "I helped, by litigation, keep unsafe products off the American market,"Ãâà...
U.S. News & World Report
February 28, 2018
Lee, a Little Rock attorney and a former compliance officer for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, had originally filed to run for a state House seat but said he switched to the AG's race after encouragement from supporters. "My history and my experience and everything I've gone through in myÃâà...
CT Post
February 19, 2018
Late last week, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission filed an administrative complaint against Britax Child Safety, Inc., alleging that certain models of their B.O.B. jogging stroller contain dangerous defects. Namely, the complaint charges the strollers' wheels can detach, resulting in injuries toÃâà...
whnt.com
February 18, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an effort to prevent children and adults from suffering further harm, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) filed an administrative complaint against Britax Child Safety, Inc., alleging that certain models of their B.O.B. jogging strollers (“strollers”) contain defects inÃâà...
The Week Magazine
February 12, 2018
The Consumer Product Safety Commission somehow made Abraham Lincoln's birthday about Tide Pods. February 12, 2018. Feb. 12 is a day that changed history forever. President Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809. And in 2018, it became the day that the Tide Pods meme officially went too far:Ãâà...
The National Law Review
December 31, 1999
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently announced that it will hold a hearing on May 16, 2018, to receive information on potential hazards with Internet of Things (IoT) products. In its public notice, the CPSC explained that the “purpose of the public hearing . . . is to provide interestedÃâà...
Miami Herald
December 31, 1999
The baby registry staple many a new parent uses for holding or — especially if it vibrates — relaxing a baby was involved in 347 incidents reported to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission between Jan. 1, 2006, and July 6, 2016. Of those 347, there were injuries in 54 incidents and deaths in 12.
The Hill
December 31, 1999
We've all seen it — and been moved. It's that commercial cutting from one gaunt, tethered dog to another, their sad eyes looking directly into our living room. "Just sixty-three cents a day," the woman tells us, "to keep a dog alive for one day." ADVERTISEMENT. How can we resist? I can't. As Chair of theÃâà...
