Are You Ready for the New Recall Legislation?

On August 14, 2008, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) was signed into law by President Bush. This new legislation has manufacturers and retailers of all consumer goods on high alert, as they attempt to determine how to ensure complete regulatory compliance and brand protection during a recall. Prior to this legislation, affected product remaining on retailer shelves equated to a mere slap on the wrist. With the new legislation, both manufacturers and retailers have much more at stake in a recall event.

Components of New Consumer Product Safety Legislation

• Increases authority of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
• Significantly increases financial and criminal penalties for noncompliant companies
• Safety standards previously considered voluntary are now mandatory
• Manufacturers are prohibited from producing noncompliant products
• Retailers are prohibited from selling or offering to sell recalled product at the store level
• Recalled product must be promptly and completely removed from store shelves
• Testing and registration required for certain categories of juvenile products
• Recalling companies must report supplier and delivery information via public database

Stericycle Can Help You Get Prepared and Stay Compliant.

With Stericycle as your recall partner, you can be certain you'll be ready for any critical event. As the industry's leading single-source provider of recall management, Stericycle's Consumer Product Safety Initiative (CPSI) employs a comprehensive suite of expert recall, retrieval and communication services specifically geared to respond to the new regulatory requirements.

Components of Stericycle's Consumer Product Safety Initiative

• Industry leading team of consumer product recall experts including a former CPSC Director of Compliance
• Complete portfolio of solutions in recall planning, execution, retrieval, reporting and close-out
• Full range of communication services including highly scalable telephony and document package based solutions
• Thousands of field representatives across North America capable of mobilizing quickly to retrieve and dispose only affected product
• Access to secure tracking and online reporting systems providing detailed product retrieval status in real time
• Ability to perform On-Site Effectiveness Checks verifying recall effectiveness and regulatory compliance

Stericycle's unique ability to perform On-Site Effectiveness Checks after several weeks into an event provides more immediate visibility to the effectiveness of the recall and regulatory compliance. By using our nationwide retrieval field force to enter stores, offices and distribution centers to check for affected product that may still be on shelves, Stericycle serves as an objective third party partner taking every precautionary step on your behalf to ensure that people are protected.

About Stericycle

Stericycle is the industry's leading provider of recall, return, retrieval and communication services. With more than two decades of experience and some of the industry's top experts on staff, we help companies in a variety of areas including recall execution, product retrieval, regulatory compliance and risk management. Stericycle has facilities in Indianapolis, Ind., Conyers, Ga., and Boynton Beach, Fla. Stericycle currently serves more than 400,000 clients worldwide.