ENSURING YOUR EXPORT PRODUCTS MEET U.S. CONSUMER

Seminar: ENSURING YOUR EXPORT PRODUCTS MEET US CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY REQUIREMENTS
Place: VCCI in HCMC
Date: Aug. 11, 2011
Website : http://www.saferproducts.gov/    
               http://www.cpsc.gov/

U.S. CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. The CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure children. The CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters, and household chemicals - contributed significantly to the 30 percent decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 30 years.

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY IMPORVEMENT ACT OF 2008 (CPSIA)

Section 102: Mandatory and Third Party

Testing for Certain Children's Products

Increased Product Testing in Two Major Ways

1- General Conformity Certification

2- Third party testing requirement

TIẾNG VIỆT:
CPSC ra quy định mới về an toàn cho dây buộc của áo khoác trẻ em
Dây buộc ở cổ và ở thắt lưng có thể gây nghẹt thở và các mối nguy hiểm khác

http://www.cpsc.gov/businfo/intl/newusreq_vn.html

More about CPSC

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Consumer_Product_Safety_Commission

The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is an independent agency of the United States government created in 1972 through the Consumer Product Safety Act to protect "against unreasonable risks of injuries associated with consumer products." The CPSC is an independent agency that does not report to nor is part of any other department or agency in the federal government. The CPSC is generally headed by three commissioners nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed by the Senate for staggered seven year terms. The commissioners set policy for the CPSC. Although the CPSC usually has three commissioners, it currently has five. The CPSC is located in Bethesda, Maryland.
Scope:
The CPSC has the authority to regulate the sale and manufacture of more than 15,000 different consumer products, from cribs to all-terrain vehicles, and from barbecue grills to swimming pools. Products not under jurisdiction of the CPSC include those specifically named by law as under the jurisdiction of other federal agencies; for example, automobiles are regulated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, guns are regulated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and drugs are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. In recent years, the CPSC has taken action against suppliers of chemicals that could be used to manufacture fireworks. Within the scientific and educational communities, there are some who feel these actions have hampered legitimate scientific research (such as research into the use of hydrogen as an automobile fuel), model rocketry, and high school chemistry projects.
CPSC fulfills its mission by banning dangerous consumer products, issuing recalls of products already on the market, and researching potential hazards associated with consumer products. CPSC learns about unsafe products in several ways. The agency maintains a consumer hot line and website through which consumers may report concerns about unsafe products or injuries associated with products. The agency also operates the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), a probability sample of about 100 hospitals with 24-hour emergency rooms. NEISS collects data on consumer product related injuries treated in ERs and can be used to generate national estimates.
In the 1970s the CPSC issued regulations on bicycles, which required a number of reflectors—including a white reflector mounted above the handlebar stem (the usual location for a bicycle headlight) and can only be seen by a motorist if the bicycle is being ridden on the wrong side of the road—as well as auxiliary brake levers (variously known as "safety levers" and "suicide levers.") These regulations were widely criticized by adult cyclists, like John Forester, as stemming from the belief that all bicycles are ridden by children and as providing the illusion of safety but actually creating a new hazard.