CPSC's Nord Against Planned Timing of 3rd-Party Testing for Toy Standard, Phthalates
Commissioner Nord of the Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted a blog on her concern that CPSC's Spring 2011 Regulatory Agenda, which has not yet been made public, states that CPSC plans in July 2011 to publish lab accreditation requirements…
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for testing children’s products to the toy standard (ASTM F 963) and to the phthalates ban. The significance of this announcement is that children’s products manufactured 90 days thereafter must be tested by a CPSC-accredited third-party lab and certified by the manufacturer or importer as complying. If the date in the agenda holds, this testing and certification will begin in October 2011. According to Nord, while the large companies have completed their holiday manufacturing by this fall, this is the busiest time for the small companies.