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The Consumer Product Safety Commission has promulgated the Final Rule regarding safety standards for portable bed rails, to be effected from August 29th, 2012.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) amends consumer registration regulations for durable infant products.The rule becomes effective on February 18, 2013.

To simplify regulations surrounding the marketing of products, the EU’s New Legislative Framework (NLF) was enacted in 2008 as part of a ‘Goods Package’ to counter claims the existing legislation is difficult to apply.

Delayed for one year to allow the industry extra time to revise their product labels in preparation, South Africa has now established new labeling regulations (R146) that applies to food manufacturers both nationally and internationally.

The Mexican Ministry of Economy issued a resolution on December 23, 2011, to amend the labeling requirements of the official Mexican Standard NOM-004-SCFI 2006 for textiles and apparel.

Effective from April 1, 2012, Hong Kong has recently updated two toy safety standards and realigns the standards to reflect changes to European, Australia/New Zealand and United States standards for eight children’s product categories.

A revised European standard EN 1930:2011 was published by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) in December 2011.

To bring legislation in line with provisions of the Food Safety Modernization Act 2010 (FSMA) the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an interim final rule and draft guidance for record access requirements on February 23, 2012.

In an effort to safeguard children by proactively upgrading toy safety standards, ASTM International published and released F963-11 on December 15, 2011.

On November 21, 2011, SGS International Electrical Certification Center Ltd. (IECC) was accredited by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) as a Conformity Assessment Body (CAB).