Dec 28, 2023 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...
Dec 04, 2023 $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...
Oct 15, 2023 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...
Jan 17, 2023 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,...
Dec 23, 2022 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...
Mar 01, 2022 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")....
Oct 28, 2020 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...