ACLASS to Accredit Testing Labs under CPSC Requirements for Safety of Cribs, Pacifiers
November 26, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS
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The ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board/ACLASS meets the safety requirements for accrediting testing laboratories under the second phase of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), according to the American National Standards Institute and the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board/ACLASS.
Issued by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), these requirements are designed to guide the safe manufacture of children's products, specifically for cribs and pacifiers.
According to prerequisites defined in Public Law 110-314, the CPSIA, manufacturers and private labelers must submit samples of certain children's products for testing by an independent laboratory before those products can be imported, warehoused or sold in the U.S.
The requirements apply to any product manufactured more than 90 days after the CPSC announced its conditions for conformance with a specific safety rule.
The first item addressed by the CPSIA, in September 2008, covered lead paint. This second set of requirements specifies testing for full-size cribs, non-full-size cribs and pacifiers.
The CPSC announced the requirements in the Oct. 22, 2008 publication of the Federal Register. The requirements will become enforceable on Jan. 20, 2009, joining prior mandates under the CPSIA.
Laboratories must be accredited by an approved third-party body in order to meet the CPSC's specifications for the testing of these products, said ANSI. ACLASS is a CPSC-recognized accreditation body authorized to accredit testing laboratories under the requirements.
Further requirements of the CPSIA legislation state that the accreditation bodies must themselves be recognized by the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC), a cooperation of more than 70 peer laboratory and inspection accreditation bodies around the world, said ANSI.
ACLASS became a signatory to the ILAC Arrangement in 2006.
Source: American National Standards Institute (ANSI).