Consumer Product Safety Commission announced on Dec. 9 the following voluntary recalls of imported products:

Consumer Product Safety Commission announced on Dec. 5 the following voluntary recalls of imported products:

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is adopting revised standards for infant bath seats, toddler beds, and full-sized baby cribs. In a final rule that takes effect March 24. The rule updates the standards to incorporate the most recent versions of applicable voluntary ASTM standards. Any adverse comments are due by Jan. 8.

Consumer Product Safety Commission announced on Dec. 4 the following voluntary recalls of imported products:

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is adopting a safety standard for hand-held infant carriers, in a Dec. 6 final rule. The safety standard incorporates the voluntary industry standard ASTM F2050-13a, with an added clarification that “hand-held infant carrier” may include both rigid-sided and semi-rigid-sided products, so as to include “Moses baskets” under the standard. CPSC’s final rule will take effect July 6, 2014.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission screened more than 12,400 import shipments during the first half of fiscal year 2013, stopping about 680 of them that contained a total of 6.1 million units of violative or defective products, it said in an import stoppage report for the period Oct. 1, 2012, through March 30, 2013. About 600 of those stoppages were for children’s products, containing over 1.2 million units, CPSC said. That’s up from the 450 shipments stopped containing about 900,000 units during the same period in FY 2012, CPSC said.

Consumer Product Safety Commission announced on Nov. 26 the following voluntary recalls of imported products:

Consumer Product Safety Commission announced on Nov. 21 the following voluntary recalls of imported products:

Port seizures of dangerous toys are up over the last five years, while the number of toy recalls has plummeted, said the Consumer Product Safety Commission Nov. 20. In the past five years, CPSC and CBP have stopped more than 9.8 million units of about 3,000 different toys that violated product safety standards, CPSC said. “The violative products never made it onto store shelves and were kept out of consumers’ homes.” The commission’s work at ports is part of a “robust toy safety system” that includes third-party testing, stringent lead and phthalates limits, and strict toy standards, said CPSC.

Consumer Product Safety Commission announced on Nov. 19 the following voluntary recalls of imported products: