CPSC to Vote on Rule to Amend Test for Mattress Flammability

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is scheduled to vote by September 13, 2011 on a final rule that would amend CPSC’s flammability standard for mattresses and mattress pads. This action would revise the ignition source provision at 16 CFR 1632.4(a)(2) to specify a standard reference material (SRM) cigarette developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. According to staff, the change is needed as the ignition source cigarette specified in the standard for use in the mattress standard’s performance tests is no longer being produced.