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 Commissioners of the Consumer Product Safety Commission are scheduled to vote by January 27, 2011 on whether to provide an additional but conditioned extension of the stay of enforcement on the third-party testing and certification requirements of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act for youth all-terrain vehicles. The staff recommends that the Commission implement a conditional stay for these products until November 27, 2011. The conditions would include the submission of General Conformity Certificates (which are based only on testing or a reasonable testing program) to CPSC, quarterly reports on the ATV company's efforts to obtain third-party tests, etc.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted an additional statement by Commissioner Adler regarding the final rule that established a public database of consumer product safety incidents. Adler discusses the benefits of the December 2010 final rule to consumers, refutes claims by Commissioner Northup that he and the other majority party Commissioners did not fully consider her alternative final rule, and provided detailed analysis of why he could not support their version. (See ITT's Online Archives or 01/20/11 news, 11012041, for Northup statement that substantive and procedural flaws with the database final rule put it in legal jeopardy.)
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published notice of the following voluntary recalls:
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 states in her blog that no decision has yet been made on the status of the stay of enforcement of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act third-party testing and certification requirements for lead content of children's products. While CPSC is fully engaged in conversations on the issue, she urges faster resolution as the stay will automatically lift February 10, 2011, absent CPSC action.
Commissioner Northup of the Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted an additional statement on CPSC’s December 2010 final rule establishing a public database of consumer product safety incidents.
Commissioner Nord of the Consumer Product Safety Commission states in her blog that several CPSC regulations would qualify under President Obama's newly announced Regulatory Policy as regulations that should be rooted out because, in the President's words, "they have stifled innovation and have had a chilling effect on growth and jobs. . .are not worth the cost, or that are just plain dumb.” For example, she believes that the August 2010 final rule on the definition of children’s products is both "costly and dumb" as it impose expensive and burdensome third-party testing on products that were not traditionally thought of as children’s products - such as carpets and rugs.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration are sponsoring a public meeting on February 22, 2011 to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items and draft U.S. positions that will be discussed at the 43rd Session of the Codex Committee on Food Additives (CCFA) of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which will be held in Xiamen (Fujian Province), China, March 14-18, 2011.