11/11/2024 4:05:25 PM In follow up to Reese's Law, CPSC proposes more requirements on products with button cell or coin cell batteries. By Paul Benson About a year ago (October 15, 2023) I posted about the impending March 2024 deadline for manufacturers of products including children's...
12/28/2023 10:15:30 PM As predicted, executives are criminally prosecuted for violating the Consumer Product Safety Act. By Paul Benson On December 23, 2022, I predicted in a post that the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) would step up criminal enforcement of the...
12/4/2023 11:26:51 PM $19.065M, $15.8M, $11.5M, and $16M -- what do these big time CPSC penalties all have in common? A failure to timely report. By Paul Benson In early January of this year, the Consumer Product Safety Commission ("CPSC") levied a $19.065M civil penalty against a fitness company...
10/15/2023 11:30:49 PM Manufacturers have until March 24, 2024, to comply with new CPSC final rule governing button cell and coin batteries. By Paul Benson If you are a manufacturer of a consumer product that uses small batteries – often called “button cell” or “coin” batteries – you have...
1/17/2023 2:05:33 AM I told you so: $19M civil penalty against Peloton is one of the first of many in what should be an active year for the CPSC. By Paul Benson I authored a post on December 23, 2022, predicting that the Consumer Product Safety Commission ("CPSC") would aggressively enforce,...
12/23/2022 7:50:24 PM Here's my first prediction for 2023: CPSC will aggressively enforce, penalize, and litigate against consumer product manufacturers. By Paul Benson To be fair, this really isn't much of a prediction on my part. The new operating plan published by the Consumer Product Safety Commission...
3/1/2022 11:37:45 PM Lesson learned: failure to timely report to CPSC results in $6.5 million fine for fitness company. By Paul Benson Clients will often ask whether they should report an actual or suspected safety issue to the Consumer Product Safety Commission ("CPSC")....
10/28/2020 12:00:00 AM How does this happen? CPSC has no idea how its "guidance" document got published? By Paul Benson I do not consider myself particularly tech savy, and I marvel at how the IT group at my firm controls and protects the information we...