Senate Committee Approves Auto Safety Bill In the wake of Toyota Motor Companies Recalls over faulty break systems, a U.S. Senate Committee approved a bill that would require carmakers to meet new safety standards and would double funding for the federal agency overseeing automobile safety. Read more about this in our newsletter . . .
Two Major Conferences for Manufacturers The IPSLP has two major Conferences coming up in the next four months for manufacturing managment, as well as importers, insurance reps and defense attorneys. Read more about this in our newsletter . . .
Lessons Learned from Toyota Product recalls continue to be at record numbers, and have been growing every year for the past 6 years. Whether it be consumer products (CPSC), automotive (NHTSA), or even recalls throughouit Europe (RAPEX), the problems are getting worse instead of better and manufacturers of all kinds of products are recalling tens of thousands of their products, or even millions. Read more about this in our newsletter . . .
New Zealand Strikes Product Safety Agreement with China On June 18 the Ministry of Consumer Affairs and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ) signed an agreement to increase co-operation on consumer product safety issues. Read more about this in our newsletter . . .
Canada Committed to Tougher Product Safety Law The Government of Canada reinforced its commitment to deliver tougher legislation to protect Canadian families from unsafe products as Minister of Health Leona Aglukkaq toured the Health Canada Product Safety Laboratory in Ottawa. Read more about this in our newsletter . . .
Consumer Safety Regulators Join Forces For the first time in June three regulators looking after the safety of consumers across the Atlantic (in the EU, Canada, and U.S.) have joined together to demand strong worldwide safety standards on a specific. Read more about this in our newsletter . . .
Australia - A New National Product Safety Regime The Trade Practices Amendment (Australian Consumer Law) Bill (No 2) 2010 (Cth) was introduced into the House of Representatives on March 17, 2010. Among other things, the bill creates a national consumer product safety regulatory regime which . . . Read more about this in our newsletter . . .
Germany - Liability for Creeping Defects A number of decisions have addressed the question of whether damage caused to a product by one of its own component parts is recoverable under German product liability law . . . Read more about this in our newsletter . . .
