The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a notice announcing that a collection of information entitled "Publicly Available Consumer Product Safety Information Database" has been approved by the Office of Management and budget and has been assigned OMB control number 3041-0146. The approval expires on January 31, 2014. The notice adds that an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission plans to conduct a public meeting on April 5, 2011 to solicit answers from testing laboratories, pool and spa drain cover manufacturers and other industry representatives, as a CPSC investigation has revealed that the testing protocols used by some laboratories may have been improper. As a result, some covers certified by these laboratories may not comply with Federal law.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development have issued an updated remediation protocol for homes with problem drywall from China. Since a study conducted on behalf of CPSC finds no evidence of a safety hazard to home electrical systems, the agencies are no longer recommending the removal of all electrical wiring in homes with problem drywall.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has updated its list of meetings between CPSC and its stakeholders that are open to the public, unless otherwise stated:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission published notice of the following voluntary recalls on March 17, 2011:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a closed meeting on March 23, 2011, in which the staff will brief the Commission on various compliance matters.
On March 16, 2011, the Food and Drug Administration has posted revised versions of the following Import Alerts on the detention without physical examination of:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission published notice of the following voluntary recalls on March 16, 2011:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission will hold an open Commission meeting on March 23, 2011 to discuss a proposed rule on bed rails. A live webcast of the meeting will be available here.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted two reports which outline staff work on voluntary standard activities during fiscal year 2010 (October 2009 - September 2010).