Consumer Product Safety Commission sources confirm that the Commission has voted to extend the general stay of enforcement on the third-party testing and certification requirements for youth all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) until November 27, 2011, subject to certain conditions. CPSC says the extension is necessary as there are still no accredited third-party labs for ATV testing. A draft Federal Register notice announcing the extension is available here.

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

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.)

The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the signing of memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with Hong Kong and Australia to improve product safety.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced the signing of memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with Hong Kong and Australia to improve product safety. The MOUs put formal structures into place for information sharing about recalled products, consumer product regulations, product testing requirements and product safety campaigns. The MOUs also allow regulators to work more easily toward compatible product safety standards.

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 January 26, 2011, in which the staff will brief the Commission on various compliance matters.

The Food and Drug Administration has posted the Import Refusal Report for January 2011. This report covers import refusals involving FDA-regulated products, including cosmetics. The IRR is generated from data collected by FDA's Operational and Administrative System for Import Support (OASIS) and is updated monthly.

The Food and Drug Administration is announcing the availability of a guidance for industry entitled "Process Validation: General Principles and Practices," which provides information for the pharmaceutical industry on the elements of process validation for the manufacture of human and animal drug and biological products, including active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).