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CPSC Sets New Product Safety Standard for Children's Folding Chairs and Stools
December 15, 2017 |Consumer Product Safety Commission

The Consumer Product Safety Commission on Dec. 15 issued a final rule setting a new product safety standard for children’s folding chairs and stools. CPSC’s standard incorporates the latest ASTM voluntary industry standard for children’s chairs and stools, ASTM F2613-17a, without any changes except for applying that standard only to folding chairs and stools. According to CPSC’s final rule, the new standard applies to “seating furniture with a seat height of 15 inches or less with a rigid frame that is intended to be used as a support for the body, limbs, or feet of a child when sitting or resting in an upright or reclining position, can be folded for transport or storage, and may include a rocking base. The product is intended to be used by a single child who can get out of the chair unassisted,” CPSC said. The new standard takes effect June 15, 2018.

CPSC Updates Child-Resistance Standard for Portable Gasoline Containers
December 14, 2017 |Consumer Product Safety Commission

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is amending its standards on child-resistance requirements for closures on portable gasoline containers to adopt the latest changes to the ASTM voluntary industry standard, it said in a direct final rule. Having last updated the standard in 2015, CPSC is now adopting changes to the ASTM standard made in November 2017 in their entirety, it said. The updated standard is mandatory for all portable gas containers sold or imported into the U.S. that were manufactured on or after Jan. 12, 2018.