Check Your CAP: CPSC Releases Revised Monthly Progress Report Form For Recalls

The CPSC recently released a new monthly progress report form for companies conducting recalls with the agency. The revised form is in some respects better written than its predecessor and retains many of the old information reporting categories, disposes of or modifies other information fields from the old form, and contains entirely new and already somewhat controversial information requests. For those unfamiliar with the monthly report form, it is a document that companies conducting joint recalls with the CPSC fill out and submit regularly throughout the course of a recall in accordance with their corrective action plan ("CAP").

The document serves as one of the CPSC's various measures of how effectively the recall is being carried out. The revised form now requests companies submit the following information concerning a recall: