Commissioner Nord of the Consumer Product Safety Commission has blogged that she welcomes the staff recommendation now under Commission consideration to extend until September 14, 2011 the stay of enforcement on testing and certification for lead content of children's products. However, Nord questions if this is enough time, as she only expects two related final rules (on testing and certification and component testing) to be issued in spring or summer. She notes that the Commission will soon be voting on the staff recommendation.
The Food and Drug Administration has posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Justice Department has announced that the U.S. has filed a complaint against Boston Scientific Corp. and related Guidant entities under the False Claims Act for selling defective implantable cardioverter defibrillators, and hiding the problems from patients, doctors, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
On January 25, 2011, two bills were introduced to amend the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 to exclude youth all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) and similar recreational motorized vehicles from the lead content limits of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA).
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published notice of the following voluntary recall:
The Food and Drug Administration has posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published notice of the following voluntary recall:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a closed meeting on February 2, 2011, in which the staff will brief the Commission on various compliance matters.
The Food and Drug Administration and the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service are sponsoring a public meeting on February 9, 2011 to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items and draft U.S. positions that will be discussed at the 22nd session of the Codex Committee on Fats and Oils of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which will be held in Penang, Malaysia, February 21--25, 2011.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted the comments it received on its July 2010 request for information and comments on the technological feasibility of the 100 parts per million lead content limit for children's products. This limit is set to take effect August 14, 2011, unless CPSC determines that such a limit is not technologically feasible for a product or product category, in which case, the lowest amount below 300 ppm (the current limit) would be set. (These comments were also posted to www.regulations.gov and summaried in ITT. See ITT’s Online Archives or 10/19/10 news, 10101914, for BP summary describing the comments CPSC received on the feasibility of the 100 ppm limit.)