The Consumer Product Safety Commission is scheduled to vote on July 20, 2011 on two notices concerning children’s products. The first is a phthalates enforcement policy. The second notice would establish the requirements for third-party labs to be accredited to test children’s toys pursuant to the ASTM toy standards, F 963-08 (all toys) and section 4.27 from ASTM F 963-07ε1 (on toy chests) and trigger the third-party testing and certification requirements for toys.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a Federal Register notice announcing its public hearing in Bethesda, MD on July 20, 2011 to receive views from all interested parties about its agenda and priorities for fiscal year 2013, which begins on October 1, 2012. (See ITT's Online Archives or 06/28/11 news, 11062825, for previous BP summary announcing this meeting.) The public may attend the meeting or watch it live via webcast here.

The Office of Textiles and Apparel has issued monthly reports containing official May 2011 trade data from the Census Bureau for U.S. imports and exports of textiles and apparel.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced on July 11, 2011 that Macy's Inc. has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $750,000 to resolve allegations that it failed to immediately report that certain children’s upper outerwear had drawstring hazards, and that it sold some of the subject garments after recalls had been negotiated.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission published notice of the following voluntary recall for July 12, 2011:

The Consumer Product Safety Commission published notice of the following voluntary recall for July 13, 2011:

Chairman Tenenbaum of the Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a press release on the President's call for independent regulatory agencies to participate in the requirements of EO 13563 of January 2011 by producing their own plans to reassess and streamline existing regulations and to follow cost-saving, burden-reducing principles for regulations going forward. She stated that earlier this year, she directed staff to reinvigorate CPSC's voluntary review process, which is intended to look at ways to maximize openness and public participation, and effectively review substantive regulations that may require revision, repeal, or strengthening. However, she states that Congress explicitly exempted the rulemakings mandated by the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) from many of CPSC's traditional rulemaking requirements.

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

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is scheduled to vote by July 12, 2011 on a draft final rule that would exempt powder formulations of Colesevelam Hydrochloride (Welchol®) (PP 10-1) and Sevelamer Carbonate (Renvela®) (PP 10-2) from the special packaging requirements of the Poison Prevention Packaging Act.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is scheduled to vote on July 13, 2011 on two notices involving children’s products. The first would announce whether the 100 parts per million lead content limit for children’s products will take effect as scheduled on August 14, 2011. The second notice would establish the requirements for third-party labs to be accredited to test children’s toys pursuant to the ASTM toy standards, F 963-08 (all toys) and section 4.27 from ASTM F 963-07ε1 (on toy chests).