The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is pushing the boundaries of its regulatory authority,\u00a0as it’s set to issue a rulemaking on the basis of outdated data and faulty reasoning.<\/p>\n
Specifically the\u00a0CPSC,\u00a0long known for its overzealous overregulation<\/a>, voted to move forward in late December (in the midst of the holidays), with a draft rulemaking that would ban a class of chemicals called phthalates from some consumer products. Phthalates are used in a variety of consumer goods to make them more durable and to prevent plastics from shattering. CFIF’s Timothy Lee\u00a0covered the issue more in-depth last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n The circumstances surrounding\u00a0CPSC’s ruling truly fly in the face of any pretense of scientific objectivity or transparency. The Commission completely ignored four years of the most recent data and made sure that no pesky third party scientists would point this out by refusing to open the peer review process to the public.<\/p>\n Placing the review behind closed doors also left the public in the dark about\u00a0a new review process\u00a0CPSC used\u00a0called a cumulative risk assessment.\u00a0 This method is so new\u00a0and untested that the EPA, an agency not exactly renowned for being a model of scientific integrity, has decided to review it before using it for its regulatory decisions. The\u00a0result of using this method and general overreach of the Commission could be\u00a0previously safe chemicals being\u00a0banned in everyday products\u00a0and replaced with unknown and potentially unsafe alternatives. The level of overreach has prompted two of CPSC\u2019s own commissioners to question its validity.<\/p>\n Fortunately, the CPSC has started\u00a0its public review and has opened the docket for comments from\u00a0the public.\u00a0\u00a0Take a stand now and tell CPSC that this type of overregulation is exactly what we don\u2019t need from them. Follow the link here to take action and comment now.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is pushing the boundaries of its regulatory authority,\u00a0as it’s set to issue a rulemaking on the basis of outdated data and faulty reasoning. Specifically the\u00a0CPSC,\u00a0long known for its overzealous overregulation, voted to move forward in late December (in the midst of the holidays), with a draft rulemaking that would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1209,3368],"class_list":["post-22446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-consumer-product-safety-commission","tag-phthalates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22446"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22450,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22446\/revisions\/22450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}