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August 31, 2016  /  Quality Assurance CPTSol

US CPSC Votes for Proposed Rule Making to Exempt Certain Plastics from Phthalates Testing.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued a proposed rulemaking on August 17, 2016: Prohibition of Children’s Toys and Child Care Articles Containing Specified Phthalates: Determinations Regarding Certain Plastics.

 

In an effort to reduce the cost of third party testing requirements consistent with assuring product compliance, the CPSC issued a draft notice of proposed rulemaking for determinations that certain plastics with specified additives would not contain phthalates that are prohibited in children’s toys and childcare articles. Upon approval, a draft rule will be published in the Federal Register and a public comment period will be open for 75 days.

Under the proposed rule, companies that manufacture or import children’s toys or childcare articles that contain accessible polyethylene, polypropylene, high impact polystyrene, or acrylonitrile butadiene styrene will not be required to third party test to assure compliance with Section 108 of the Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA). However, compliance with the 0.1% limit for the currently six prohibited phthalates is still required.

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