Latest Consumer Product Safety Act Stories
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that Hewlett-Packard Company (HP), of Palo Alto, Calif., has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $425,000. The settlement agreement (pdf) has been provisionally accepted by the Commission (3-1). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20030904/USCSCLOGO) The settlement resolves staff allegations that HP knowingly failed to report immediately to CPSC, as required...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today released updated remediation guidance for homeowners with problem drywall. The guidance calls for the replacement of all: problem drywall; smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms; electrical distribution components, including receptacles, switches and circuit breakers, but not necessarily wiring; and fusible-type fire...
Hands-on science kits that are produced to get kids excited about science could have an unclear future as debates arise on the safety of the kits, according to the Associated Press (AP). The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has been caught up in deliberation for weeks as it writes up guidelines on what makes a product safe for children, and which products need to undergo stricter safety testing as part of a 2008 law. The debate has included the classroom science kits and some of the...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Furthering its commitment to improve the safety of Recreational Off-Highway Vehicles (ROVs) and reduce the number of deaths and serious injuries nationwide, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission voted to publish an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) to address safety hazards associated with vehicle ROVs. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030904/USCSCLOGO) CPSC staff's preliminary evaluations indicated that the...
Librarians will not have to purge their older books and novels after all on Tuesday, after a new product safety law comes into play.The new requirement, passed in August, hugely reduces the amount of lead and other chemicals permitted in kids' products. This was worrying libraries, as several books published prior to 1980s had ink made with lead.On Saturday the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the federal agency that enforces the law, declared that it would not prosecute anyone for...
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Julia Moore, +1-202-691-4025 (work), +1-202-277-1415 (cell), julia.moore@wilsoncenter.org, or Colin Finan, +1-202-691- 4321 (work), +1-202-841-5605 (cell), colin.finan@wilsoncenter.org Agency lacks budget, authority and expertise to ensure nanoproducts are safe WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --- The inability of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to carry out its mandate with respect to simple, low-tech products such as children's...
