TITLE: Amendments to Fireworks Regulations; Notice of Extension of Comment Period AGENCY: Consumer Product Safety Commission ACTION: Extension of comment period SUMMARY: The Consumer Product Safety Commission (Commission or CPSC) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPR) regarding fireworks in the Federal Register on 2 February 2017. The NPR invited the public to submit written comments during a 75-day comment period beginning on the NPR publication date. In response to a request for an extension of the comment period, the Commission is extending the comment period by 90 days. Submit comments by 17 July 2017.
Distribution date: 19 April 2017 | Final date for Comment: 30 April 2025
Products Covered: Fireworks
Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification
DUS 1713:2017, Standard Test Method for Flexibility and Adhesion of Finish on Leather.
Distribution date: 19 April 2017 | Final date for Comment: 18 June 2017
This draft standard test method is intended for use on finished leather to evaluate resistance to cracking, delamination, and discoloration of the finish when subjected to repeated flexing. This test method does not apply to wet blue.
Products Covered: Textile lubricant preparations and preparations of a kind used for the oil or grease treatment of leather, furskins or other material containing petroleum oil or bituminous mineral oil (excl. preparations containing, as basic constituents, >= 70% petroleum oil or bituminous mineral oil by weight) (HS code(s): 340311); Textile lubricant preparations and preparations of a kind used for the oil or grease treatment of leather, furskins or other material not containing petroleum oil or bituminous mineral oil (HS code(s): 340391); Leather technology in general (ICS code(s): 59.140.01); Leather products (ICS code(s): 59.140.35); Other standards related to leather technology (ICS code(s): 59.140.99)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
DUS 1714:2017, Standard Practice for Calculation of (Non-Mineral) Combined Tanning Agents and Degree of Tannage.
Distribution date: 19 April 2017 | Final date for Comment: 18 June 2017
This draft practice covers the determination of the combined tanning and nonextractable organic resins and the degree of tannage of all types of vegetable-tanned leather and leather with organic retannages. This practice does not apply to wet blue.
Products Covered: vegetable-tanned leather.
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Proposed amendment to the Regulation of Food and Drugs Testing Laboratories Assessment
Distribution date: 20 April 2017 | Final date for Comment: 19 June 2017
For a foreign testing laboratory that meets the designation requirements of its own government, it may be evaluated on modified criteria outlined in laboratory quality assurance scheme evaluation sheet.
Products Covered: Testing laboratories (foods, livestock products, pharmaceutical drugs, traditional Korean medicine, medical devices, cosmetics)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
DUS 1674:2017, Surface polish — Specification.
Distribution date: 25 April 2017 | Final date for Comment: 24 June 2017
This draft Uganda standard specifies requirements, methods of sampling and test for wax based polishes in form of paste and liquid applicable to polishes intended for use on plastics, leather, rubber, finished furniture and car interiors like dashboards and leather seats. This standard does not apply to polishes for floor, glass, fibre and fabric surfaces.
Products Covered: Surface polish.
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Please note that point 10 in item 8 of the notification should read (correction marked in bold): 8. Relevant documents: IS 2124 (2000): Sodium Bicarbonate (Second Revision) AOAC (2000): Official methods of analysis of AOAC International (17th ed.), Gaithersburg, Md. US CAC/GL 50 – General guidelines on sampling AOAC 965.18 – Phosphorus in baking powder – Gravimetric method AOAC 999.11 – Determination of Lead, Cadmium, Copper, Iron, and Zinc in Foods AOAC 920.46 – AOAC Official method: Metals and Other Constituents in Baking Powder US ISO 10523 – Water quality – Determination of pH DUS ISO 2199 – Sodium hydrogen carbonate for industrial use – Determination of Sodium hydrogen carbonate content – Titrimetric method DUS ISO 2460 – Sodium hydrogen carbonate for industrial use – Determination of Iron content – 1, 10-phenanthroline photometric method US ISO 2482 – Sodium chloride for industrial use - Determination of calcium and magnesium contents - EDTA complexometric methods The Weights and Measures (Sales and Labeling of goods) Rules, 2007
Distribution date: 26 April 2017 | Final date for Comment: 30 April 2025
Products Covered: Sodium bicarbonate
Regulation Type: Corrigendum to Regular Notification
Partial amendment to the Minimum Requirements for Biological Products
Distribution date: 27 April 2017 | Final date for Comment: 26 May 2017
The Minimum Requirements for Biological Products shall be partially amended to revise the standard for the "Freeze-dried Haemophilus Type b Vaccine (Tetanus Toxoid Conjugate)"
Products Covered: PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS (HS code(s): 30)
Regulation Type: Regular notification
DUS 1754:2017, Standard Practice for Sampling Industrial Chemicals.
Distribution date: 01 May 2017 | Final date for Comment: 30 June 2017
This draft test method covers procedures for sampling several classes of industrial chemicals. It also includes recommendations for determining the number and location of such samples, to ensure their being representative of the lot in accordance with accepted probability sampling principles.
Products Covered: Industrial Chemicals.
Regulation Type: Regular notification
DUS 1755:2017, Standard Test Method for Water in Organic Liquids by Coulometric Karl Fischer Titration.
Distribution date: 01 May 2017 | Final date for Comment: 30 June 2017
This draft test method covers the determination of water from 0 to 2.0% mass in most liquid organic chemicals, with Karl Fischer reagent, using an automated coulometric titration procedure. Use of this test method is not applicable for liquefied gas products such as Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG), Butane, Propane, Liquid Natural Gas (LNG), etc.
Products Covered: Organic Liquids.
Regulation Type: Regular notification
Notification of the adopted Animal Health Requirements for raw milk/milk products to be exported to Japan
Distribution date: 01 May 2017 | Final date for Comment: 30 April 2025
As was announced in G/SPS/N/JPN/471/Add.1 dated 14 November 2016, the revised Article 45 of "the Ministerial Ordinance for Enforcement of the Act on Domestic Animal Infectious Disease Control" will enter into force on 1 November 2017, and raw milk/milk products will be added to the list of items subject to animal health quarantine. In G/SPS/N/JPN/471/Add.2 dated 16 February 2017, MAFF proposed the draft Animal Health Requirements to set out detailed import conditions including required statements in the health certificate to be applied to raw milk/milk products to be imported into Japan from 1 November 2017(*). This is to notify of the adopted Animal Health Requirements: http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2017/SPS/JPN/17_2055_00_e.pdf The model format of the health certificate for the countries listed on the Annex of the Animal Health Requirements: http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2017/SPS/JPN/17_2055_01_e.pdf The model format of the health certificate for non-listed countries: http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2017/SPS/JPN/17_2055_02_e.pdf (*)Note: Raw milk/milk products arriving in Japan on and after 1 November 2017, including products exported from exporting countries before 1 November 2017, will need to be accompanied by the health certificate issued by the competent authority of the exporting country in accordance with the AHRs.
Products Covered:
Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification
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