The Consumer Product Safety Commission published notice of the following additional voluntary recalls for February 29 - March 1, 2012:

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced its weekly meeting on March 7, 2012 in which the staff briefs the Commission on the status of various compliance matters. The meeting is closed to the public, and the agenda is confidential.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted a February 2012 draft 76-page staff Supplemental Fiscal Year 2012 Operating Plan for the Commission's consideration at its March 7, 2012 meeting. The draft states that key expenditures of this operating plan include import surveillance, which has been expanded; enforcement of Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) rules through field enforcement programs at establishment, retail stores, and ports; upcoming rulemakings; and efforts to upgrade and improve information technology systems. The report also states that CPSC settled with 10 companies for a total of $3.6 million in penalties in 2011, plans to continue international engagement, and is engaged in a nanotechnology initiative. Meeting notice available here.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission published notice of the following additional voluntary recalls for February 28, 2012:

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a final rule that effective August 29, 2012 amends 16 CFR Part 1224 to reference a revised mandatory consumer product safety standard for portable bed rails that are installed on the side of an adult bed and/or on the mattress surface to keep children from falling out of bed. The revised mandatory standard is ASTM F 2085-12, “Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Portable Bed Rails,” which was developed jointly by CPSC and ASTM. The CPSC's predecessor standard was ASTM F2085-10a.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a final rule that effective April 30, 2012 amends the CPSC's mandatory standard for all-terrain vehicles to reference the 2010 "ANSI Standard for Four-Wheel All-Terrain Vehicles Equipment Configuration and Performance Requirements" (ANSI/SVIA 1-2010), which covers both the adult and youth versions of ATVs. The prior standard referenced was the 2007 ANSI/SVIA version.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission published notice of the following voluntary recalls for February 28, 2012:

On February 17, 2012, Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Northup stated she voted against the agency's 2013 budget as she disagreed with many of the funding choices it contains, particularly a new investment in Information Technology (IT). Northup's main concerns with CPSC is the wastefulness of the large new investment in the IT program. She states that after already spending over $29 million to “upgrade and improve” its IT systems, CPSC now seeks an additional $7.44 million to continue the work. However, she states that the results of the agency's IT investment so far are not encouraging, as exemplified by the agency's safety incident public database.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission published notice of the following voluntary recalls for February 21-22, 2012:

Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Anne Northup, in her Safety and Common Sense blog, complained that the registration requirement that allows small batch manufacturers to forgo third-party tests for compliance with certain children’s product safety rules until alternative tests or an exemption are issued, is too revealing as to their revenue and production data, and that it is unrealistic to expect these manufacturers to possess the legal knowledge necessary to provide the evidence and arguments for maintaining confidentiality.