CPSC staff proposes mattress FR rules take effect July'07
Many industry recommendations have been accepted, ISPA says
David Perry -- Furniture Today, January 19, 2006
WASHINGTON -- The staff of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is recommending that a federal open-flame mattress flammability standard go into effect on or after July 1, 2007.
The CPSC staff has released briefing materials it will present to the full commission on Feb. 1, the International Sleep Products Assn. told members via e-mail yesterday. CPSC is scheduled to decide whether to accept those recommendations by Feb. 16, 2006, ISPA said.
After an initial review of the draft FR notice, ISPA said it appears CPSC’s staff “has agreed with many comments submitted on behalf of the mattress industry by ISPA and the Sleep Products Safety Council.”
The staff recommends the commission adopt a standard specifying the total heat release during the first 10 minutes of a mattress burn test cannot exceed 15 megajoules, and that the peak heat release rate during the 30-minute test cannot exceed 200 kilowatts, ISPA said.
It said the draft FR notice states that CPSC would require U.S. importers of foreign-produced mattresses to maintain records at a location in the United States documenting that imported products meet the standard. The documents and the supporting test records must be in English.
CPSC staff also recommended that renovated mattresses be explicitly covered by the standard, ISPA said.
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