CPSC's Nord Says "15 Month" Rule Should Wait Until CPSIA Test Burden Inquiry
Commissioner Nord of the Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted a blog entry on her hope that CPSC will wait to issue its final rule on mandatory periodic testing (the overdue "15 month" rule) until it conducts the public inquiry…
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on ways to reduce Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) testing burdens, as required by the new CPSIA reform law (H.R. 2715) signed by President Obama on August 12, 2011. She says that this would lead to a more thoughtful, more collaborative, and more transparent final rule. (See ITT's Online Archives or 08/02/11 and 08/15/11 news, 11080230 and 11081501, for detailed BP summary of H.R. 2715 and it's signature by the President.)