On March 11, 2011, 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 published notice of the following voluntary recalls on March 10, 2011:

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a closed meeting on March 16, 2011, in which the staff will brief the Commission on various compliance matters.

The Food and Drug Administration has posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

The Food and Drug Administration has posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

Commissioner Nord of the Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted a blog on her concern that CPSC's Spring 2011 Regulatory Agenda, which has not yet been made public, states that CPSC plans in July 2011 to publish lab accreditation requirements for testing children’s products to the toy standard (ASTM F 963) and to the phthalates ban. The significance of this announcement is that children’s products manufactured 90 days thereafter must be tested by a CPSC-accredited third-party lab and certified by the manufacturer or importer as complying. If the date in the agenda holds, this testing and certification will begin in October 2011. According to Nord, while the large companies have completed their holiday manufacturing by this fall, this is the busiest time for the small companies.

On March 9, 2011, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that Ms. Bubbles Inc. of California has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $40,000 to settle staff allegations that the firm knowingly failed to immediately report to the CPSC, as required by federal law, that children’s hooded jackets it imported and distributed in commerce had drawstrings. The penalty agreement has been provisionally accepted by CPSC.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission published notice of the following voluntary recalls on March 9, 2011:

The Consumer Product Safety Commission published notice of the following voluntary recalls on March 8-9, 2011:

The Food and Drug Administration has posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of: