MOST 2008 GOALS MET REPORTS CPSC CPSC met or exceeded most of its fiscal 2008 performance goal, according to its November performance report for the year that ended September 30.
COMMENTS SHOW UNCERTAINTY ON LEAD RULES Comments to CPSC on upcoming lead rules for children’s products showed companies in need of information as much as those with firm ideas on how to proceed.
LEGISLATORS CHIDE CPSC ON PHTHALATES OPINION Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif) and Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.), and representatives Henry Waxman (D-Calif), Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) wrote letters to CPSC criticizing the agency’s opinion that the phthalates provisions of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) would not apply retroactively to existing inventories when the rules come into effect in February.
EU MAKES LAST-MINUTE FIX ON ‘NO LONGER POLYMERS’ The EU said that makers of certain substances deemed “no-longer polymers” need to preregister their products by December 1 to take advantage of extended REACH phase-in deadlines.
EU GPSD MEETING HITS ON RANGE OF ISSUES Discussion at the EU’s November meeting on the General Product Safety Directive (GPSD) ranged from consumer complaints to children’s pajamas to personal music players and numerous other issues.
ILLINOIS SEEKS 40 PPM LEAD WARNING A bill (SB 2860) awaiting the signature of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (D) would require warnings on children’s products with total lead contents between 40 parts per million (ppm) and 600 ppm.
SMALLER PIRG TOY LIST FOCUSES ON CPSIA ISSUES Public Interest Research Group’s (PIRG) 2008 Trouble in Toyland report contained just six allegedly dangerous toys instead of the usual dozens.
CPSC BRIEFS Briefs on stockpots, pants, cleaner, cribs, CPSC meeting.
