Tenenbaum Gives Stern Warning about Recallers’ Behavior Companies that publicly blame victims’ families will face an angry CPSC, Chairman Inez Tenenbaum told an International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization (ICPHSO) audience February 17 in a keynote speech that surprised many of the top CPSC stakeholders gathered for the Washington, D.C. meeting.

Falvey Notes Value in Holistic CPSIA Approach CPSC General Counsel Cheri Falvey February 17 said that companies that are looking at how tracking labels integrate with other parts of the CPSIA – such as the consumer database – could put themselves at an advantage.

Howell Gives Tips on Testing The basic question in deciding how often to do periodic testing is “How big of a recall do you want to manage?” explained Jay Howell, head of CPSC’s Office of Hazard Analysis and Reduction February 17.

Mullen Cites Need to Cover Inland Ports More CPSC has a goal of having inspectors at interior U.S. ports-of-entry, CPSC Compliance chief Gib Mullan February 17 told an International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization (ICPHSO) crowd.

New CPSC Website Covers CPSIA Database Implementation CPSC February 17 launched a new website dedicated to the CPSIA consumer complaint database. Stakeholders will be able to follow the agency’s implementation of the sometimes controversial system.

CPSC Briefs Briefs on cribs, components, recalls, meetings.