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Late this afternoon it was confirmed that Commissioner Bob Adler was elected Vice-Chairman of the CPSC.

On Monday, August 1, 2011, both Houses of Congress passed virtually unanimously a bill to amend the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 ("CPSIA") in response to industry complaints that complying with CPSIA would prove excessively onerous to manufacturers. The bill now awaits President Obama’s signature, who is expected to sign the bill into law.

With the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC's) myriad recent activities — from large civil penalties, to highly anticipated rulemaking...

On May 8, 2008, the chairmen of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee (Committee) and the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (Subcommittee) sent a letter of inquiry to numerous U.S. food processors requesting information on the firms' history of recalls, food safety alerts, and all instances of known chemical or microbiological contamination since January 1, 2000.

Earlier today, the CPSC unanimously agreed to publish in the Federal Register a new enforcement policy proposed by Commissioner Joe Mohorovic regarding the certification of certain adult wearing apparel.

CPSC announced that Baja Inc. agreed to pay a $4.3 million civil penalty to resolve charges that it knowingly failed to immediately report certain defects.

The CPSC is voting soon on whether to hold a workshop to discuss potential ways to reduce third party testing costs through additional "determinations" that certain products or materials do not require third party testing.

Although the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) authorized a budget of $136.4 million for CPSC in fiscal year 2014, Congress set the CPSC’s authorization levels years before the recent budget climate took hold in Washington DC.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC's) proposed safety standard for lithium-ion batteries used in micromobility products is back on the agency's agenda.

On December 22, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it had filed a civil enforcement action (the Complaint) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland against Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.

On January 18, 2018, a federal district court entered a consent decree imposing a $5 million civil penalty on Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Inc. for alleged violations of the Poison Prevention Packaging Act...

The FTC's settlement with Passport is notable in at least two respects.

On July 30, 2024, the CPSC issued a Decision and Order against Amazon, finding that Amazon is a "distributor" of third-party products, as defined by the CPSA, and therefore bears legal responsibility for recalls of products sold on the platform.

A growing number of states are passing Green Chemistry laws, e.g.; California, Connecticut, Maine, Minnesota, and Washington State.

Safety design review is a critical step in the product development process, supporting the performance, safety, and reliability of finished products.

On April 26, 2021, the California Court of Appeal issued its decision in Loomis v. Amazon.com LLC, which could have drastic consequences for operators of e-commerce sites being sued for strict liability for injuries incurred as a result of defective products sold on their platforms.

Morgan & Morgan has filed two new lawsuits against Dexcom, Inc., alleging that the company's G7 continuous glucose monitors malfunctioned and caused severe medical emergencies in children with diabetes. The cases involve a 7-year-old California girl hospitalized with diabetic ketoacidosis and a 10-year-old Tennessee girl who experienced convulsive seizures from hypoglycemia, both allegedly due to device failures that misreported dangerous blood sugar levels.

After a civil penalty gap of more than two years, enforcement activity by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) appears to be on the upswing, with two settlements announced in early 2021.