The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted (5-0) today to approve a new federal safety rule for drawstrings in children’s outerwear. The final rule designates children’s upper outerwear in sizes 2T through 12, with neck or hood drawstrings, and children’s upper outerwear in sizes 2T through 16, with certain waist or bottom drawstrings, as […]
Product Liability / Defective Products
Viking to pay 6 figure fine for failing to report product defect
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that Viking Range Corporation, of Greenwood, Miss., has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $450,000. The penalty agreement has been provisionally accepted by the Commission. The settlement resolves CPSC staff allegations that Viking Range Corporation was aware for years of a defect involving its refrigerator […]
American Honda Recalls Portable Generators
American Honda Motor Co. of Torrance, Calif., recalled three models of portable generators because of the labels on the batteries. Approximately 2500 of the generators were recalled because the hazard labels attached to the batteries used on the generators are printed in Japanese instead of English. As a result, consumers handling the battery may not […]
Nutritional supplements snake-oil or dangeous products?
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R) Utah is the go to guy in Washington for the nutritional supplement industry. According to an article in today’s New York Times, his continual quest to keep his special interest friends happy is flooding the market with untested products claiming to cure everything from baldness to erectile dysfunction. Hatch, who is […]
Big Lots recalls bunk beds after child dies
Big Lots, of Columbus, Ohio, is voluntarily recalling about 30,000 metal futon bunk beds. Children behind the futon or in the ladder area of the bunk bed can get entrapped when the futon and its metal frame are lowered from the seated to the flat position. This is what happened to a three-year old Burlington, […]
