The U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has launched important new features to the Safer Products.gov Business Portal that make it easier and more efficient for businesses to work with CPSC. These changes are a key part of the agency’s overall information technology modernization effort. A new, comprehensive online form allows manufacturers, private labelers […]
Product Liability / Defective Products
$1.3 million dollar fine levied against toy company
The Consumer Product Safety Commission imposed the third largest toy-related this week against a California toy company that sold the defective and dangerous arts-and-crafts beads Aqua Dots, that were linked to a dangerous drug and sickened about a dozen children. The civil penalty, announced Thursday, was levied against Spin Master, Inc of Los Angeles, which […]
U.S., Canada and Mexico Join Forces to Strengthen Consumer Product Safety Across North America
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Health Canada, and the Consumer Protection Federal Agency of the United Mexican States (Profeco) concluded a first-of-its-kind consumer product safety Summit that was aimed at strengthening the protections for children and consumers throughout North America. The three federal agencies with jurisdiction over consumer products in the United States, […]
Nordica USA to pay fines for faulty plates and bindings
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced that Nordica USA, of West Lebanon, N.H., has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $214,000. The penalty agreement has been provisionally accepted by the Commission (5–0). The settlement resolves CPSC staff’s allegations that Nordica USA knowingly failed to report immediately to CPSC the safety defect and […]
Radiation from your cell phone; is the exposure underestimated?
The Federal Communications Commission’s “safe exposure” limits for low-level radiation absorbed from cell phones operating at their highest possible power level—known as the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR)—“does not adequately protect” most people who use cell phones, especially children who absorb more cell phone radiation than adults, according to an article published online this week in […]
