HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT CPSC POWER While CPSC’s decades-long declines in personnel and resources, as expected, drew much of the focus of a February 28 budget hearing by the newly-formed House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, the hearing also revealed some of the possible coming concerns of the newly-Democratic Congress related to the agency.
POST-RECALL EVENTS ARE EFFECTIVENESS MEASURE, CPSCers SAY Numbers of injuries, deaths and other incidents following recalls – rather than numbers of units returned to firms – may be a better measure of recall effectiveness, high-level CPSC officials suggested February 28.
CPSC COMPLIANCE GOALS TO FOCUS ON SPEED CPSC is restructuring its compliance goals, Office of Compliance and Field Operations Director Gib Mullan told an International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization audience February 27.
NORD IDs NANOTECH AND DTC AS CHALLENGES CPSC Acting Chairman Nancy Nord February 27 identified nanotechnology and direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales, especially over the internet, as coming challenges for the agency.
NIH PANEL WILL ASSESS BISPHENOL A RISKS A 15-member scientific panel March 5-8 in Alexandria, Va., will seek conclusions on whether Bisphenol A in plastics poses risks to human development or reproduction.
CANADIANS REPORT HIGH COUNTERFEIT BUYING HABITS Canadians are three-times more likely to buy counterfeit goods than are U.S. residents (40% vs. 13%), according to a February 27 poll conducted for the Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network.
STANDARDS & TESTING BRIEFS Briefs on computer batteries, power distribution, electrical heaters, electric signs, roof jacks, fire dampers, electric vehicles, decks, central vacs.
