NIST Issues Standard for Testing Lead in Paint
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed reference materials to test the level of lead in paint using X-Ray Fluorescent (“XRF”) guns. The CPSC limit on lead in children’s products is 90 ppm. The reference materials are three Read more...
CPSC Database Lists Recalls and Consumer Complaints
As required by the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”) set up a public database on March 11, 2011 that lists consumer complaints as well as recall notices. The database is searchable by company and Read more...
Seizure of Children’s Shoes Over Lead Limit
United States Customs and Border Control seized a shipment of children’s shoes with 300 parts per million lead, three times the legal limit. The shipment was valued at more than $24,000
CPSC Method on Lead Testing in Metals
CPSC staff have issued a revision to the method for testing lead in homogeneous metals. The preferred methods remain chemical digestion and analysis by Inductively Coupled Plasma – Optical Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES). Inductively Coupled Plasma–Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) and Flame Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy Read more...
CPSC Announces Teleconference on Phthalates
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced a teleconference on April 10 of the Chronic Hazard Advisory Panel (CHAP) to discuss phthalates and phthalate substitutes. The CHAP must make recommendations to the Commission regarding any phthalates (or combinations of phthalates by Read more...
CPSC Website for Report of Unsafe Products
In March 2011, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”) launched a new website which allows consumers and others to report on consumer products which are alleged to be unsafe. The database is searchable by product type or company and list Read more...
Phthalate Testing
Phthalates are found in a wide variety of products, including polyvinyl chloride (which in turn in used in a wide range of products), coatings, and perfumes. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”) recently held a symposium on phthalate testing for Read more...
CPSC Adopts Revised Toy Safety Standard.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has accepted the revised ASTM F963-11 Standard entitled Standard ConsumerSafety Specifications for Toy Safety. It will become a mandatory consumer product safety standard effective June 12, 2012.
First Lawsuit Against CPSC Database
On Monday, a consumer product manufacturer filed suit against the CPSC seeking to keep confidential a report of alleged harm to a child. The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act authorized the CPSC to develop a database that would publish on the Read more...
Congress Amends the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008
On August 1, 2011, both the House and the Senate by overwhelming margins passed H. R. 2715 which amends the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (“CPSIA). If enacted into law, the bill would amend the CPSIA as follows: Read more...
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