PRINTED TOY ADS MAY GET GRACE PERIOD FOR WARNINGS Catalogs and other printed advertising material should have a 180-day grace period from February 10 to comply with the upcoming rule to require warnings in such material, CPSC staff is urging.
CPSC WARNS OF BUCKET-DROWNING RISK CPSC September 30 reminded consumers that it knows of 94 bucket-related drownings from 1999 to 2006 involving children, all but one under age 2.
GET RID OF POOL HAZARD, VERSUS REDUCING IT, CPSC URGES Eliminating drain entrapment hazards, rather than mitigating them, is CPSC staff’s message in a September 30 guide to complying with the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool & Spa Safety Act.
FREE PRESS EQUALS SAFE PRODUCTS, STATE DEPT HEARS The safety of Chinese products could depend on that nation’s progress on civil liberties as much as its progress on regulatory matters, the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy heard September 29 in Washington, D.C.
EU NGO PROMOTES ‘SIN LIST’ OF POSSIBLE HIGH-RISK CHEMICALS The International Chemical Secretariat (ChemSec), an EU non-government organization (NGO), in September launched an effort to speed up substitutes for chemicals it thinks should be “of high concern” under the EU’s REACH system.
ILLINOIS AG SEEKS CPSC ACTION ON SECOND-HAND STORES The Illinois Attorney General office October 1 asked CPSC to develop a strategy to deal with sales of used products subject to recalls, especially on websites like Craigslist or eBay.
CPSC BRIEFS Briefs on toy boats, chests, toasters, lawn mower jacks, snowmobiles, hammocks, ATVs, boilers, Sears, tip-overs, CPSC meetings.
