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Small manufacturer · 14 min

Quality, safety rules and recalls

One bad run can cost more than a year of good ones. Here are the rules your product falls under, what a recall really costs, and the habits that keep one small.

Ticket 01 · The guess

How fast must you speak up?

Your shelf brackets are in stores, and you learn some of them could fail and seriously hurt someone. Nobody's been hurt yet. By law, how many hours do you have to tell the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)?

240 hours
0 hours720
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  • Duty to Report to the CPSC: Your Rights and Responsibilities · U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 2026
  • Civil Penalties; Notice of Adjusted Maximum Amounts (86 FR 68244, December 1, 2021; in force from January 1, 2022) · U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (Federal Register), 2022
  • 21 U.S. Code § 350f, Reportable food registry (section 417 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) · Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School (text of the U.S. Code), 2026

Every number

  • 24 hourscpsc.gov ·2026 · CPSC: a company must report within this long of getting information that a product may be defective and create a substantial risk of injury, or create an unreasonable risk of serious injury or death.
  • $120,000federalregister.gov ·2022 · CPSC's maximum civil penalty for each violation, in force since the start of 2022. The CPSC sets a new schedule every five years; the next is due by December 2026.
  • $17.2Mfederalregister.gov ·2022 · CPSC's maximum civil penalty for a related series of violations, in force since the start of 2022.
  • 24 hourscornell.edu ·2026 · Section 417 of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: a registered food facility must report a reportable food to FDA as soon as it can, and never later than this long after deciding it's reportable.
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Small manufacturer · 14 min

Quality, safety rules and recalls

One bad run can cost more than a year of good ones. Here are the rules your product falls under, what a recall really costs, and the habits that keep one small.

Ticket 01 · The guess

How fast must you speak up?

Your shelf brackets are in stores, and you learn some of them could fail and seriously hurt someone. Nobody's been hurt yet. By law, how many hours do you have to tell the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)?

240 hours
0 hours720
Words to know

Spot something wrong?

Tell us what looks off. No name or email needed.

What kind of problem?

0 / 1000

We'll also send this page, the lesson, ticket 1, so we can find it. Nothing else. Privacy

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Sources and every number (3)

Sources

  • Duty to Report to the CPSC: Your Rights and Responsibilities · U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 2026
  • Civil Penalties; Notice of Adjusted Maximum Amounts (86 FR 68244, December 1, 2021; in force from January 1, 2022) · U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (Federal Register), 2022
  • 21 U.S. Code § 350f, Reportable food registry (section 417 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) · Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School (text of the U.S. Code), 2026

Every number

  • 24 hourscpsc.gov ·2026 · CPSC: a company must report within this long of getting information that a product may be defective and create a substantial risk of injury, or create an unreasonable risk of serious injury or death.
  • $120,000federalregister.gov ·2022 · CPSC's maximum civil penalty for each violation, in force since the start of 2022. The CPSC sets a new schedule every five years; the next is due by December 2026.
  • $17.2Mfederalregister.gov ·2022 · CPSC's maximum civil penalty for a related series of violations, in force since the start of 2022.
  • 24 hourscornell.edu ·2026 · Section 417 of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: a registered food facility must report a reportable food to FDA as soon as it can, and never later than this long after deciding it's reportable.
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