Commissioners Nord and Northup of the Consumer Product Safety Commission have both posted blogs urging the trade to respond to CPSC's recent request for information and comments on the technological feasibility of meeting the 100 ppm lead content limit. This third and final lowering of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act lead content limit will take effect August 14, 2011, unless CPSC determines, for a particular product or class of products, that the limit is not technologically feasible.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is scheduled to vote by August 5, 2010 on a final rule to amend its regulations concerning exemptions for small packages, minor hazards, and special circumstances codified at 16 CFR IS00.83 to correct internal citations to the definitions of "extremely flammable solid" and "flammable solid" contained in 16 CFR I500.3(c)( 6).
The Food and Drug Administration is announcing the availability of a draft guidance for FDA staff entitled "Compliance Policy Guide Sec. 690.800 Salmonella in Animal Feed," which, when finalized, is intended to provide guidance on regulatory policy relating to animal feed or feed ingredients that come in direct contact with humans, such as pet food and pet treats, contaminated with Salmonella and also on regulatory policy relating to animal feed or feed ingredients contaminated with a Salmonella serotype that is pathogenic to the target animal for the animal feed.
The Food and Drug Administration is announcing the availability of a report entitled "A New Approach to Targeting Inspection Resources and Identifying Patterns of Adulteration: The Reportable Food Registry," which presents FDA's experience with the RFR from the opening of the Reportable Food electronic portal on September 8, 2009, until March 31, 2010.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a draft Strategic Plan for 2011-2016 which recognizes and accounts for CPSC’s new legislative mandates, the growing global supply chain, technological advances in consumer products, and the agency’s commitment to proactively reduce consumer product hazards.