Thanks to @KEVIN for alerting me to the news. Scott Wolfson also confirmed this evening that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission voted unanimously (2-0) to issue a one year stay of enforcement for certain testing and certification requirements for manufacturers and importers of regulated products, including products intended for children 12 years old and younger. (More …)
Posts Tagged: CPSC
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1 Permanent link to CPSC Grants 1 Year Stay of Testing and Certification Requirements for Certain Products CPSC Grants 1 Year Stay of Testing and Certification Requirements for Certain Products
FEATURED POSTRichard Brewer-Hay / Friday, January 30th, 2009
CPSC Grants 1 Year Stay of Testing and Certification Requirements for Certain Products
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19 Permanent link to The CPSC Takes Questions from eBay Community The CPSC Takes Questions from eBay Community
FEATURED POSTRichard Brewer-Hay / Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
The CPSC Takes Questions from eBay Community
I wrote a post back in December regarding eBay banning deadly products and included a conversation I had with U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) spokesperson, Scott Wolfson.Since that post a number of emails have come in regarding the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act due to go into effect on February 10, 2009. So much so that it was agreed here internally that a follow-up post was in order. We wanted to get eBay users’ input on the pending changes and questions that could be posed directly back to the CPSC. Griff went out onto the boards and solicited questions and I then went back to Scott and posed them in a phone conversation this past Friday. (More …)
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1 Permanent link to Another resource to help with Consumer Safety: GoodGuide.com Beta Another resource to help with Consumer Safety: GoodGuide.com Beta
FEATURED POSTRichard Brewer-Hay / Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Another resource to help with Consumer Safety: GoodGuide.com Beta
While I was looking into the CPSC for my interview with Scott Wolfson, I came across a new online service. I haven’t had a chance to properly kick the tires on it yet but it is a relatively new site currently in Beta called GoodGuide.com. Based in San Francisco, GoodGuide is a free Web site that evaluates the safety of more than 65,000 toys, personal care and household products. They posted a holiday guide to safe toys this week on their blog.
From their website:
GoodGuide™ strives to provide the world’s largest and most reliable source of information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of products and companies. GoodGuide’s mission is to help you find safe, healthy, and green products that are better for you and the planet. From our origins as a UC Berkeley research project, GoodGuide has developed into a totally independent “For-Benefit” company. We are committed to providing the information you need to make better decisions, and to ultimately shifting the balance of information and power in the marketplace.Like I said, it’s new and it’s in Beta but the GoodGuide looks like another resource worth taking advantage of. According to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle this morning, GoodGuide will be available on iPhones as well as cell phones that can handle text messages. Will keep an eye out for that too.
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3 Permanent link to eBay Bans Deadly Products from Site; Works Closely With Consumer Product Safety Commission eBay Bans Deadly Products from Site; Works Closely With Consumer Product Safety Commission
FEATURED POSTRichard Brewer-Hay / Thursday, December 11th, 2008
eBay Bans Deadly Products from Site; Works Closely With Consumer Product Safety Commission
It’s no secret that I’ve made online trust & safety a key topic of discussion here on Ink recently going so far as to enlist the contributions of eBay’s Online Safety Advisor, Rich LaMagna, to weigh in from time to time on policies and best practices. With that in mind, when I learned that we assisted in enforcing the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC) recall of Simplicity bassinets and Magnetix toys, I wanted to learn more.
I was fortunate enough to spend a few minutes with Scott Wolfson of the CPSC to find out more about the recent recalls and how online consumers can keep up to speed on product recalls and consumer safety. (More …)
