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CPSC requirements

Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act website

On Friday, January 30, 2008, The Consumer Product Safety Commission ("CPSC") announced a decision to stay the enforcement of certain provisions of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 ("CPSIA"), Public Law 110-314.

The “CPSIA” established a new General Certificate of Conformity requirement for all products that are subject to an existing standard, ban, etc., manufactured on or after November 12, 2008. The certifications were required by manufacturers (including importers) of products subject to an applicable consumer product safety rule. The following products are not subject to the stay:

1. Those where testing and certification was required by subsection 14(a) of the CPSA prior to enactment of the CPSIA and
   
   
2. Those requirements, when they become effective, applicable to children's product certifications required to be supported by third party testing for which the Commission has issued requirements for acceptance of accreditation of third party testing laboratories to test for:
   
   
   • Lead paint (effective for products manufactured after December 21, 2008),
   • Full-size and non-full size cribs and pacifiers (effective for products manufactured after January 20, 2009),
   • Small parts (effective for products manufactured after February 15, 2009), and
   • Metal components of children's metal jewelry (effective for products manufactured after March 23, 2009) and
   • Other exceptions provided for in the notice.

This stay will remain in effect until February 10, 2010.

This stay does not alter or postpone the requirement that all products meet applicable consumer product safety rules as defined in the CPSA or similar rules, bans, standards, or regulations under any other Act enforced by the Commission. The stay alters only the testing and certification required by subsection 14(a) of the CPSIA.

Additional information on the stay can be found at: http://www.cpsc.gov/businfo/frnotices/fr09/stayenforce.pdf

General information and notices on the CPSIA can be found at http://www.cpsc.gov/ABOUT /Cpsia/cpsia.HTML.

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