PRODUCT SAFETY

The Official Journal of the European Union has published new Commission Regulation 2019/1338 which amends Regulation 10/2011 on plastic materials and articles intended to come into contact with food. Hong Kong’s food suppliers and suppliers of food packaging (e.g., food containers) to the EU market will likely know that this latter-mentioned law has established a Union list of authorised substances. More

Rhode Island has amended and postponed from 1 July 2019 to 1 January 2020 a comprehensive ban originally adopted in 2017 on toxic flame retardants in certain consumer products. More

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has updated the mandatory safety standard for carriages and strollers by incorporating by reference all updates that have been made to the ASTM voluntary standard for such products (ASTM F833–19). The update will enter into force on 5 November unless the CPSC receives significant adverse comment by 3 September. More

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has updated the mandatory safety standard for full-size baby cribs by incorporating by reference all updates that have been made to the ASTM voluntary standard for such products. The updates will enter into force on 28 October unless the CPSC receives significant adverse comment by 22 August. More