CPSC Chairman Elliot Kaye and Health Canada’s Acting Director General, Consumer Product Safety Directorate James Van Loon addressed ICPHSO and the media jointly, to announce that CPSC and Health Canada are united in their commitment to eliminate corded blinds due
This panel, fully titled “Challenges to Recalls, How to Get Consumers to Respond to Recalls, and New Effective Ways to Reach Consumers,” featured Carolyn Carlin, Christoper Nguyen, and Tanya Topka from CPSC. Here are key points from the session.
Good morning from ICPHSO CPSC Day. Over the course of the day, I will post updates and highlights from CPSC Day, with particular focus on comments from CPSC Chairman Elliot Kaye. I have added my thoughts throughout.
One call out
Late last week, the CPSC Office of Compliance and Field Operations issued a letter on the CPSC website to “Manufacturers, Importers, and Retailers of Self-Balancing Scooters” that ultimately makes a new voluntary safety standard for self-balancing scooters, typically called “hoverboards,”
CPSC continues to show its intention to use Section 15(b) reporting claims as a tool to punish companies and deter the consumer products industry from taking its reporting obligations lightly. Earlier this year, CPSC Chairman Kaye stated that he is
In the wake of the 60 Minutes report on laminate flooring and subsequent fallout for Lumber Liquidators, Chairman of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, Elliot Kaye, stated in a recent media call that the Commission is taking a measured
CPSC Chairman Elliot Kaye was the keynote speaker for CPSC Day, and he did not disappoint. Chairman Kaye’s speech focused on providing the consumer products industry with a sense of his priorities for the coming years, which I have listed
We are here at the ICPHSO conference in Orlando for CPSC day. Key speakers from CPSC include Chairman Elliot Kaye, the Team Lead for Fast Track Recalls, the Director of Regulatory Enforcement, and the Director of Field Investigations. Here are
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to expand the ban on phthalates in Section 108 of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act.
Currently, Section 108
As 2014 draws to a close, we see that Section 15(b)’s reporting requirement continues to be a powerful tool for CPSC to punish companies who manufacture, distribute, or sell products that are ultimately recalled. In 2014, CPSC entered into six