NEMA Currents Blog

A Year in the Life of the CPSC

On August 14, 2008, former President George W. Bush signed into law the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-314), landmark legislation to reauthorize and strengthen the the CPSC. At the time, the CPSC was operating with a two-member quorum comprised of one Republican appointee...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2009 3:01 PM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: AFCI, CPSC, Carbon Monoxide, GFCI

CPSC Getting Bigger Muscles

Earlier this week President Obama announced his intent to nominate Inez Moore Tenenbaum, former South Carolina State Superintendent of Education, to serve as the new chair of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). In the same announcement , the president indicated he also is nominating Robert...

Published Wed, May 05 2009 12:55 PM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: CPSC

CPSC announce recall of counterfeit circuit breakers

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) last week issued a recall on counterfeit circuit breakers sold by the d istributor Specialty Lamp International Inc., of Deerfield Beach, Florida. The Counterfeit Circuit Breakers are labeled as “Square D” and approximately 371,000 have been distributed....

Published Wed, Jun 06 2008 8:41 AM by Winstanley, Gerard

Filed under: Anti-Counterfeiting, CPSC

Will the Senate CPSC Bill Actually Improve Consumer Safety?

After months of negotiations, the U.S. Senate this week will take up consensus legislation ( S. 2663 ) to reauthorize and reform the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). While S. 2663 is an improvement over the bill ( S. 2045 ) approved by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2008 9:00 AM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: CPSC

Syndication

Recent Posts

Tags

Blog Roll

Archives

A Year in the Life of the CPSC

CPSC Getting Bigger Muscles

CPSC announce recall of counterfeit circuit breakers

Will the Senate CPSC Bill Actually Improve Consumer Safety?