CPSC Announces recalls of more than 165,000 inclined sleepers to prevent risk of suffocation
January 29, 2020, cpsc.gov
The CPSC announces today the following recalls are posted in cooperation with the firms listed below. Recalls can be viewed at www.cpsc.gov.
- Summer Infant Recalls SwaddleMe By Your Bed Inclined Sleepers to Prevent Risk of Suffocation
- Evenflo Recalls Pillo Portable Napper Inclined Sleepers to Prevent Risk of Suffocation
- Delta Enterprise Corp. Recalls Incline Sleeper with Adjustable Feeding Position for Newborns to Prevent Risk of Suffocation
- Graco Recalls Little Lounger Rocking Seats to Prevent Risk of Suffocation
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products under the agency’s jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually.
Trump drives to make toilets, dishwashers great again collides with companies product testing
January 29, 2020, Washington Post
Two engineers designed today’s toilets considered flushing marvels, able to clear an average of two pounds of paste and paper per flush, and four times as much as old commodes, despite using less than half as much water. So the two engineers were surprised when President Trump recently started complaining publicly about toilets. “People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once,” Trump said at the White House last month. He also talked about toilets during a rally in Milwaukee two weeks ago.
How the Coronavirus could hurt Apple and Starbucks
January 29, 2020, New York Times
More companies are temporarily halting business in parts of China, as the outbreak spreads and the fear of contagion rises.
Here’s the latest:
- British Airways suspended flights to and from mainland China. Cathay Pacific and United Airlines have reduced the number of flights.
- Starbucks closed more than half of its storesin the country, its second-biggest market.
- The owner of Uniqlo has closed about 100 stores in the affected Hubei Province.
- Apple said the outbreak could affect its financial forecasts. Tim Cook, its C.E.O., told analysts yesterday that suppliers could be disrupted and that traffic to its stores in China had dropped.
Boeing expects cost of grounding 737 Max: Over $18 billion
January 29, 2020, New York Times
Boeing said on Wednesday that the costs associated with the grounding of the 737 Max were likely to surpass $18 billion, a significant increase over earlier forecasts.The new estimate, announced during Boeing’s quarterly earnings report, is the company’s most recent approximation of just how expensive it will be to return the Max to service, compensate airline customers and restart the shuttered 737 factory. Boeing continues to grapple with the fallout from the crashes of two Max jets in 2018 and 2019, which killed 346 people, leading to the worldwide grounding of the plane in March.
Six professionals to receive Certified Product Safety Professionals pins at international conference
January 24, 2020, EIN NewsWire
Six product safety professionals from a range of consumer product manufacturers, retailers and a service provider have been the first individuals to be designated as Certified Product Safety Professionals (CPSP) by the Society of Product Safety Professionals (SPSP). The professionals earned the designation by meeting the professional experience criteria, passing an examination, and completing a capstone case study presented to a review panel. SPSP will present the professionals their pins and certifications at the annual symposium and training meeting of the International Consumer Product Health & Safety Organization (ICPHSO) being held in Orlando, Florida February 18-21.
Indiana teen issues dire warning after vaping puts him on life-support
January 28, 2020, WDRB
“If I would have just said no, it’s that simple.” Those were the words 17-year-old Tyler Ware told Fox 59 reporter Brett Kast as he sat in Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital, just days after being released from the ICU. He spent six-and-a-half days there on life support fighting a lung illness until a trip to the emergency room revealed something worse, according to a report by Fox 59. Tyler then revealed to doctors the possible cause. “Tyler was vaping,” an official said. “Because he was vaping, his lungs were damaged.
IoT security? We’ve heard of it, says UK.gov waving new regs
January 28, 2020, The Register
The British government has finally woken up to the relatively lax security of IoT devices and is lurching forward with legislation to make gadgets connected to the web more secure. The Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said it will require makers of IoT hardware to ship devices with unique passwords that cannot be reset to a factory default setting.
Children’s Author Turned Brand Consultant Tells How Simple Storytelling Works For The Best Brands
January 29, 2020, Forbes
It’s easy to write a history about your company, listing when the company was established, who sits on the leadership team and what the key products are. It’s much harder to tell a compelling story that customers relate to, choose to buy, remember, and want to share with others. Simple storytelling often works best.
Litigation Forecast: How IoT and AI expose companies to increased tort privacy and cybersecurity litigation
January 22, 2020, Retail Consumer Products Law (Crowell Moring)
Crowell & Moring has released Litigation Forecast 2020: What Corporate Counsel Need to Know for the Coming Year. For 2020, the Forecast focuses on how the digital revolution is giving rise to new litigation risks, and it explores trends in employment non-competes, the future of stare decisis, the role of smartphones in investigations and litigation, and more.
Major trends in testing, inspection, and certification
January 29, 2020, Digital Journal
The consumer goods and retails application is expected to hold the largest market share during the forecast period. The increase in disposable income and rapid urbanization in developing economies; high growth in product recalls across the world; high adoption of outsourcing service models by worldwide manufacturers; increased requirement for harmonized standards; surge in illicit trading, counterfeiting, and piracy practices across the world; and enforcement of rigorous government regulations and standards across various sectors are driving the growth of the TIC market.
