Commissioners Nord and Northup of the Consumer Product Safety Commission have posted blogs applauding the Commission's 4-1 vote to extend the stay of enforcement on Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act testing and certification for lead content of children's products. They state that the extension has not undermined safety as the underlying lead content limits remain in effect - it simply gives business more time to implement third-party testing regimes and to respond to expected CPSC final rules on component parts and on testing and labeling.

In a January 31, 2011 staff memo to the Commissioners, Consumer Product Safety Commission staff described their belief that the pending rulemaking regarding component part testing of consumer products would ease the burden of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) testing and certification requirements for manufacturers and importers of consumer products.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published notice of the following voluntary recall:

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has updated its list of meetings between CPSC and industry stakeholders that are open to the public, unless otherwise stated:

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

A review provided to the Consumer Product Safety Commission by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Environmental Health finds that there is no evidence linking exposure to problem drywall and 11 reported deaths. The CDC review confirms the results of previous reviews conducted by CPSC into these deaths, which also found no link to problem drywall.

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 issued a Federal Register notice on its decision to extend the general stay of enforcement on the third-party testing and certification requirements for youth all-terrain vehicles until November 27, 2011, subject to certain measures and conditions. (See below for details of a more specific stay on the lead content of certain parts of youthATVs.¹)

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 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).