Consumer Product Safety Commission labeling requirements

Consumer Product Safety Commission. Law Requires Review and Labeling of Art Materials Including Children s Art and Drawing Products. Consumer Product Safety Commission - CPSC Document 5016. 

Consumer Products. The Consumer Product Safety Commission s (CPSC) labeling criteria under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act are based on biological testing. In the absence of specific data, CPSC requires specific cautionary statements for consumer products containing certain types and amounts of sodium siUcates (87). 

US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) (1992) Labeling requirements for art materials presenting chronic hazards guidelines for determining chronic toxicity of products subject to the FHSA supplementary definition of toxic under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act final rules. Federal Register 57 46626—46674 (1992). 

Labeling Requirements Administered by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)... 

Hazardous Substances Act as amended supercedes the earlier legislation this Act is administered by the Consumer Products Safety Commission at present. Other Acts also include precautionary labeling provisions, for example the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, administered by the Environmental Protection Agency. The Occupational Safety and Health Act, administered by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration contains provisions for precautionary labeling. Other label requirements of principal interest to the chemical industry are also contained in the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, The Toxic Substance Control Act, and the Transportation Act. 

This miracle glue was introduced in 1959. It took about 10-15 years for the adhesive to enter the steep growth stage of its life cycle. The Consumer Product Safety Commission considered suspending its distribution to the consumer market because of the material s excellent adhesion to skin but the Commission finally decided that a warning label as required under the Hazardous Substances Act would be sufficient. Since 1975, consumption has jumped six-fold, and consumer applications have swelled from less than 20% of the total volume to over 40%. Other major outlets include electronics, toys and hobbies. Cyanoacrylates are now reaching maturity, and future growth will be more moderate (Table 10). 

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) establishes regulations to enforce the Federal Hazardons Snbstances Act (FHSA), which requires ehemieal product warning labels on consumer products [3,4]. 

The Consumer Product Safety Act of 1972 created an independent 5-member Consumer Product Safety Commission and empowered it to promulgate standards and labeling requirements reasonably necessary to protect consumers from unreasonable risks posed by the products subject to its jurisdiction. The statute contained a novel procedural device, called the offeror process, under which consumer groups or companies could offer to draft standards to address particular product hazards and the agency could then use the draft as the basis for a rulemaking. It further empowered CPSC to ban dangerous products when standards would not adequately protect the public and to order recalls of products that presented a substantial product hazard. ... 

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