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Proposed Amendment to CPSIA to Include Flame Retardants The US House of Representatives has introduced a bill to amend the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA). The proposal is to amend the CPSIA to ban flame retardant chemicals from being used in resilient filling materials in children’s products. The limit proposed for flame retardant chemicals…

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Bisphenol A – Regulation Effective July 1, 2013: On July 1, 2013 the California law limiting Bisphenol A (BPA) will go into effect. The limit established for total BPA content is 0.1 parts per billion (ppb). Therefore, products affected by this law cannot contain BPA above this limit. The California requirement is applicable to bottles/cups…

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Bill H.R. 6269 Has Been Introduced That Would Ban the Use of Bisphenol-A (BPA) in Food Storage Containers Currently, the FDA has banned the use of BPA in baby bottles and sippy cups. Additionally, the California Office of Administrative Law approved a Maximum Allowable Dose Level (MADL) for BPA this past June. The MADL is…