The Food and Drug Administration has issued a final rule to establish January 1, 2014, as the uniform compliance date for food labeling regulations that are issued between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2012. FDA periodically announces uniform compliance dates for new food labeling requirements to minimize the economic impact of label changes. (FDA previously established January 2, 2012, as the uniform compliance date for food labeling regulations issued between January 1, 2009, and December 31, 2010.)
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published notice of the following voluntary recall:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a closed meeting on December 15, 2010, in which the staff will brief the Commission on various compliance matters.
International Trade Commission sources have provided a document listing the statistical changes to the Harmonized Tariff Schedule that are scheduled to take effect January 1, 2011 (or other dates as noted in document).
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 updated its list of meetings between CPSC and industry stakeholders that are open to the public, unless otherwise stated:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published notice of the following voluntary recalls:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is scheduled to vote December 15, 2010 on a final rule to establish new mandatory consumer product safety standards for full-size and non-full-size baby cribs, as required by the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA). CPSC will also vote on a notice establishing the accreditation requirements for third-party labs to test the subject cribs pursuant to the final rule and another final rule to revoke CPSC's current crib regulations at 16 CFR Parts 1508 and 1509.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has extended, by 60 days, the date by which manufacturers (including importers) of youth all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) must submit sufficient samples of such products to a CPSC-approved third-party lab for testing and, based on such testing, issue a certificate that the products manufactured after the deadline comply with 16 CFR Part 14201, the CPSC ATV regulations.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published notice of the following voluntary recall: