The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced that Raynor Marketing Ltd. of West Hempstead, NY has agreed to a civil penalty of $390,000 to resolve CPSC staff allegations that it was aware of a defect involving office chairs it sold to consumers, as well incidents and injuries, yet the firm failed to report them immediately to CPSC as required by federal law. The penalty agreement has been accepted provisionally by the Commission.

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).

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is scheduled to vote by February 3, 2011 on a staff memorandum recommending that CPSC accredit Heshan Leo Metrology and Testing Services Co., Ltd. of Guangdong, China as a firewalled third-party lab to test for compliance with CPSC's lead in paint, small parts, and rattle requirements.

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 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 has posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:

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 published notice of the following voluntary recall: