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'Company Doe' in Product Safety Disclosure Case Revealed as Ergobaby
May 9, 2014 by Brian Feito|Consumer Product Safety Commission

The “Company Doe” currently embroiled in a federal court case related to disclosure of a safety incident by the Consumer Product Safety Commission has revealed itself to be Ergobaby, a Los Angeles seller of infant and baby carriers. Ergobaby had challenged the publication of a report of a child’s death purportedly caused by one of its products on CPSC’s Saferproducts.gov database, arguing the report was inaccurate and shouldn’t be made public. The Maryland U.S. District Court agreed, and allowed Ergobaby to go by the pseudonym “Company Doe” during the proceeding to avoid any public link by the incident. But in April, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit said the public has a First Amendment right to know who was litigating the case, and ordered the docket unsealed (see 14042225).

CPSC Import Screening Activities Increased in Last Half of FY 2013
May 6, 2014 by Brian Feito|Consumer Product Safety Commission

The Consumer Product Safety Commission screened over 14,000 import shipments in the last half of fiscal year 2013, stopping over 600 of them that contained 8.2 million units of violative product, said CPSC in its biannual Import Stoppage Report. The number of shipments is up from the 12,400 shipments screened in the first half of FY 2013, although the number of shipments stopped dropped slightly (see 13120325).

CPSC Updates List of Import Violations of Mandatory Standards
May 2, 2014 by Brian Feito|Consumer Product Safety Commission

The Consumer Product Safety Commission on April 20 updated its list of Letters of Advice sent to importers and manufacturers for violations of mandatory product safety standards. Recently added data show CPSC sent letters of action for import-related violations related to 95 products in March and 51 products in April. All of the Letters of Advice sent in March were related to Chinese products, while in April the majority covered products from Mexico and Pakistan. The most common violations in March and April were of tracking label requirements and the Federal Hazardous Substances Act standard for lead in children’s products.