Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act Under CPSIA Section 102 Guidance Document Testing and Certification Requirements

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Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act Under CPSIA Section 102 Guidance Document Testing and Certification Requirements

Section 102 of the CPSIA requires a certificate of conformity for all products other than children's products that are subject to a consumer safety rule under the CPSIA or any similar rule, standard, prohibition or regulation under any other commission-enforced Act. This general certification requirement is sometimes referred to as a "supplier's declaration of conformity". Certification will be based on testing of each product or a reasonable testing program.

Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act Under CPSIA Section 102 Guidance Document Testing and Certification Requirements


Mandatory third-party testing is required for many types of children's products to ensure that the product complies with "rules, prohibitions, standards, or regulations that apply to the product" under the CPSIA.

After ensuring compliance with the CPSIA through third-party testing, manufacturers are then required to issue a Child Product Certificate that certifies that the product is CPSIA compliant. Samples submitted to a third-party tester must be representative of the product and continually tested to verify compliance.

Testing requirements typically do not apply to ordinary books, but books with "natural play value" need to be tested. Books that are playful in nature are books designed for children up to the age of three or non-paper books. Metal components of bicycles are generally not required to comply with the test requirements in section 102.


EUROLAB assists manufacturers with CPSIA Section 102 test compliance. Our test experts, with their professional working mission and principles, provide you, our manufacturers and suppliers, the best service and controlled testing process in our laboratories.

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