CPC Certification CPSIA & ASTM F963 Testing
日期：2025-02-24 点击：42Children’s Product Certificate (CPC)
Manufacturers and importers of children’s products must certify, in a written Children’s Product Certificate based on test results from a CPSC-accepted laboratory, that their children’s products comply with applicable children’s product safety rules.Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA)
The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) of 2008 is a United States law. This law amended CPSIA in 2008 to provide CPSC with significant new regulatory and enforcement tools. CPSIA addresses, among other things, lead, phthalates, toy safety, third-party testing and certification, imports, ATVs, civil and criminal penalties and SaferProducts.gov. It repeals a funding limitation on the number of CPSC commissioners.The CPSIA defines the term for children’s products. It is targeted mostly toward “children's products”, which are defined as any consumer product designed or intended primarily for children 12 years of age or younger.
Comply with all applicable children’s product safety rules;
Be tested for compliance by a CPSC-accepted accredited laboratory, unless subject to an exception;
Have a written Children’s Product Certificate that provides evidence of the product’s compliance;
Have permanent tracking information affixed to the product and its packaging where practicable.CPSIA Testing will include as below :
Total lead containing paint/surface coating
Total lead in accessible substrate material: metal parts
Total lead in accessible substrate material: non-metal parts
Children's products containing lead
Prohibition of articles for children containing phthalates
Small parts labeling
Tracking labels for children's productsAmerican Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM F963) Testing
The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) develops and publishes international standards against which products may be tested – including ASTM F963-23. Ensuring compliance with ASTM F963-23 is mandatory under CPSIA, for a wide range of toys and other children’s products.” And it requires California to publish a list of chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. This list, which must be updated at least once a year, has grown to include approximately 900 chemicals since it was first published in 1987.Adherence to the standard successfully eliminates many potential hazards from toys because it identifies the best design practices. This includes numerous aspects of the toys, even those of which the public may not be readily aware. Some specifications are intended to prevent hazards from direct contact with toys, such as stating that “nails and fasteners shall not present a point, edge, ingestion, or projection hazard,” or that surfaces should remain free of any toxic materials.
By identifying the possible hazards with toy use, as well as those that may not be recognized readily by the public, ASTM F963-23 is able to establish nationally recognized safety requirements for toys.
CPSC & ASTM F963-23 covers an extensive list of safety aspects, including the following:
Chemicals and heavy metal restrictions
Mechanical and physical properties
Electrical safety
Small parts
Flammability
