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House Passes Amendment to Block CPSC Voluntary Recall Proposal
July 17, 2014 by Brian Dabbs|Congress

The House passed on July 16 an amendment to prohibit funds from being used by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to “finalize, implement, or enforce” a CPSC proposal aimed at making voluntary correction action plans legally binding. The amendment eked out passage with 229 votes in favor and 194 opposed. The amendment was tacked onto the House financial services appropriations bill for fiscal year 2015, which passed on July 16 along sharp partisan lines (here). Lawmakers approved nearly a dozen amendments in total (here).

Sony will voluntarily recall about 680 Vaio Flip PC...
July 2, 2014 by Paul Gluckman|Miscellaneous

Sony will voluntarily recall about 680 Vaio Flip PC laptops because their lithium-ion batteries can overheat, “posing fire and burn hazards,” the Consumer Product Safety Commission said in a notice Tuesday. Ironically, the notice was posted on the very day, July 1, when Sony’s exit from the Vaio business was scheduled for completion. Sony has said it would transfer the PC business to a new company, Vaio Corp., funded by Japan Industrial Partners, though Sony has said it will continue to service the PCs it has already sold. Sony is aware of four incidents, which occurred in Asia, of computers overheating, resulting in units smoking, catching fire and melting, the commission said. No injuries have been reported, it said. The products in question bear the model number SVF11N13CXS and were sold in silver, black and pink, it said. They were sold for about $800 each through Sony brick-and-mortar stores and at sony.com between February and April of this year, it said. They have a Panasonic-manufactured lithium-ion battery and a folding touch screen, it said. Asked why the recall targets the Vaio laptops and not the Panasonic batteries that are susceptible to overheating, a commission spokesman said it’s the agency’s policy to make the end-user product the target of a voluntary recall and not the components within. Sony didn’t immediately comment.