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By Debra Rade on May 5, 2015
There is a new website in town relevant to all medical devices called AccessGUDID. You decide if it is a catchy, memorable name or not. Just think, you would like to Access the Global Unique Device Identification Database, but that’s not enough as its own identifier isn’t so easy. http://accessgudid.nlm.nih.gov/ Wouldn’t it have been […]
Posted in Corporate Governance, Policies & Compliance, General Counsel & Corporate, Product Safety & Regulatory | Tagged AccessGUDID, Class I, Class II, Class III, FDA, Global Harmonisation Task Force, Global Unique Device Indentification Database, implantable, medical device, NIH, NIHNLM, UDI, Unique Device Indentifier
By Debra Rade on December 10, 2014
With many friends who have delivered babies recently or who have been blessed with new grandchildren, it seems a good idea to share this news release from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today. Ironically, a great number of baby wipes are being recalled because of contamination before they’ve been used on your baby’s […]
Posted in Corporate Governance, Policies & Compliance, General Counsel & Corporate, Product Safety & Regulatory | Tagged B. cepacia, baby, baby wipes, cpsc, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, Nutek, product safety, recall, safety
By Debra Rade on May 21, 2014
According to a HuffPost Taste post last year, there are at least 21 ways to make a better hummus, and a chickpea has not been waived past many of them. However, relying on our federal government for only the most vital and fundamental services, Sabra Dipping Co. (Sabra) has filed a Citizen Petition with the […]
Posted in Corporate Governance, Policies & Compliance, General Counsel & Corporate, Product Safety & Regulatory | Tagged #anticompetitive, #antitrust, Citizen Petition, FDA, food standards, hummus, Noerr-Pennington, PepsiCo, standards, standards development, Strauss-Group, tahini
By Debra Rade on May 20, 2014
If you are on the board of manufacturing company or a retailer, you might not have noticed that this week the Department of Justice announced that Electrolux Home Products Inc. (Electrolux) of Charlotte, North Carolina, agreed to pay a civil penalty of $750,000 in a settlement on May 14, 2014. This resolves allegations against Electrolux […]
Posted in Corporate Governance, Policies & Compliance, General Counsel & Corporate, Product Safety & Regulatory, Uncategorized | Tagged 15(b) reporting, audit committee, civil penalties, compliance program, Consumer Product Safety Act, consumer product safety commission, Department of Justice, Electrolux, failure to report, product safety
By Debra Rade on November 8, 2013
The State of Washington recently adopted an amendment to their Children’s Safe Products Act – Reporting Rulerequiring manufacturers of children’s products, under certain conditions and scenarios, to report Chemicals of High Concern to Children (CHCC) to the State. Whether you are a manufacturer that must report is determined by the size of your gross revenues […]
Posted in Corporate Governance, Policies & Compliance, General Counsel & Corporate, Product Safety & Regulatory | Tagged #childrens products, 3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate, CHCC, chemicals of high concern to children, Children's Safe Products Act, consumer product safety commission, cpsc, CSPA, large company, largest company, product regulatory, safety compliance, TDCPP, tier 1, tris, tris (1, Washington State
By Debra Rade on March 13, 2013
There is a useful product in your home that can be very, very dangerous to children, and some adults, if it is ingested or inserted into an eye, nose or ear. Indeed, you may have dozens of this product in your home — in use, in storage or sitting in the grocery bag you just […]
Posted in General Counsel & Corporate, Product Safety & Regulatory, Uncategorized | Tagged #childrens products, alkaline batteries, button batteries, child safety, children, coin cell batteries, coin cell battery, consumer product safety commission, cpsc, Energizer, esophagus, home safety, intertek, lithium batteries, safe kids, The Battery Controlled, toddler safety
By Debra Rade on June 22, 2011
It’s a new era for manufacturers, importers & retailers in Canada. With Royal Assent, the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA) came into force on June 20, 2011. Everyone making or selling consumer products for the Canadian market should be mindful of these new laws requiring “incidents” to be reported to Health Canada upon “becoming […]
Posted in Product Safety & Regulatory | Tagged #canadian consumer product safety act, #ccpsa, #childrens products, #CPSIA
By Debra Rade on June 8, 2011
Are the folks in Maine more interested in children’s safety than, let’s say, California or Texas? On June 3, 2011, the Maine State Legislature finalized amendments to its Toxic Chemicals in Children’s Products Act of 2008, known (in Maine, that is) as the Kid Safe Products Act. We will recall that there was a flurry […]
Posted in Product Safety & Regulatory | Tagged #bpa, #childrens products, #CPSIA, #toysafety, cpsc
By Debra Rade on April 15, 2011
SaferProducts.gov went live on March 11, 2011, on time and on budget according to CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), manufacturers, lawyers, legislators, and consumer organizations have been the primary actors with regard to this database, and there has been a substantial amount of disagreement among them. Ironically, it would seem […]
Posted in Product Safety & Regulatory | Tagged consumersafety, cpsc, nam.org, national manufacturers association, product safety, saferproducts.gov
By Debra Rade on March 25, 2011
Today we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. The fire claimed the lives of 146 workers in New York, mostly young female immigrants from Europe working long hours for low wages, who died because of inadequate safety precautions and lack of fire escapes. This sad event helped to galvanize a movement […]
Posted in Product Safety & Regulatory | Tagged fire safety, nfpa, standards, standards development, triangle shirtwaist factory fire, underwriters laboratories
