The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration are sponsoring a public meeting on February 9, 2011 to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items and draft U.S. positions that will be discussed at the 32nd session of the Codex Committee on Methods of Analysis and Sampling (CCMAS) of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which will be held in Budapest, Hungary March 7 -- 11, 2011.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has published notice of the following voluntary recalls:
Commissioner Northup of the Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted an additional statement on CPSC’s December 2010 final rule establishing a public database of consumer product safety incidents.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration are sponsoring a public meeting to provide information and receive public comments on agenda items and draft U.S. positions that will be discussed at the 22nd Session of the Codex Committee on Fats and Oils (CCFO), which will be held in Penang, Malaysia, February 21-25, 2011. The public meeting will be held on Feb. 9, 2011 in College Park, MD.
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 has published notice of the following voluntary recall:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a closed meeting on January 19, 2011, in which the staff will brief the Commission on various compliance matters.
The Government Accountability Office determined in a report to Congress that the Food and Drug Administration needs to reassess its approach and obtain new authority to better protect consumers from false or misleading claims on food labels.
Independent testing commissioned by the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) has found high levels of lead in Disney “Toy Story” and “Cars” reusable plastic shopping bags purchased from Safeway. Testing of the bags found more than 15 times the federal limit for lead in children’s products. CEH is demanding that the bags be immediately removed from sale and reformulated and has asked the Consumer Product Safety Commission to investigate.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is scheduled to vote by January 20, 2011 on whether to issue a notice announcing a public hearing on February 17, 2011 on the technological feasibility of meeting the 100 parts per million (ppm) lead content limit for children's products and associated public health considerations.