EU OPENS DIALOG WITH RETAILERS ON SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS The Health and Consumer Protection Directorate General, Environment Directorate General and other EU agencies March 3 launched the Retail Forum to increase “more environmentally sustainable consumption patterns,” an area that often overlaps product safety.

FOREIGN & INTERNATIONAL BRIEFS Briefs on skis, grinders, rubber ducks, jewelry, toy shaving sets, gas grate cleaner, bicycles, cookers, pendants, string lights, bicycle handlebars, bicycle stems, ride-on toys, strollers, duvet inners, RAPEX.