CPSC, Chinese Regulators Meet Over Chinese Drywall
Date Published: Monday, June 29th, 2009
Officials from China’s General Administration for Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (ASIQ) arrived in the U.S. the week of June 15 to investigate problems with drywall made in their country.
According to heraldtribune.com, officials from the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) met with the ASIQ regulators earlier this month to discuss technical issues involving Chinese drywall. The Chinese officials also traveled with a CPSC investigative team to observe inspections and sampling conducted by our agency in one home in Florida and two homes in Louisiana. A spokesperson for the CPSC told heraldtribune.com that discussions with the Chinese delegation were “preliminary”, and had not reached any conclusion. The discussions will continue over the coming weeks. (more…)
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