Global product safety, online checks and standards
An opening-period archive of developments dated 7–13 September: international product-safety discussions, online listing checks, US agency appointments, Australian consumer guarantees and chemical-safety duties. Calendar entries cover the stated 7–19 September opening period.
Regulators and other product-safety participants met in Brussels for International Product Safety Week, including an ICPHSO symposium focused on advancing a global baseline for product safety.
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International · Events & meetings · European Commission
7 September 2026–10 September 2026 · 09:00–13:00 · CEST
A four-day European Commission programme in Brussels brought together product-safety regulators, consumer organisations, businesses and other international participants.
CPSC says the swearing-in of Commissioners Karen Sessions and Brien Lorenze restored its quorum, followed two days later by Paul Brubaker joining as executive director and chief operating officer.
A 2026 EU product-safety sweep checked nearly 1,700 online offers for children's and sports products and found that only 58% displayed the three assessed groups of manufacturer, EU responsible-person and product-identification information together.
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International · Events & meetings · European Commission
The symposium formed the closing two days of International Product Safety Week and focused on international product-safety cooperation and a global safety baseline.
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Australia · Enforcement & legal proceedings · ACCC
From 1 January 2027, revised EU CLP provisions make specified distributors directly responsible for poison-centre information when they move hazardous mixtures between Member States or rebrand or relabel them, unless the same information has already reached the appointed body.
CPSC issued five warnings on 10 September covering CooCooBaby loungers, two pressure-washer brands, Flyboss infant bouncers and iGarden swim-jet drain covers, with no ordinary cooperating recall remedy described in several cases.
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