The Consumer Products Safety Commission published a draft guideline document earlier this month. The aim of this document is to inform manufacturers and retailers of the testing and certification requirements under the CPSIA 2008. This document is in draft form at the moment and so none of the guidelines have been approved, it does however make for relevant reading.

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Did you realise that certifying products as asthma & allergy friendly^TM ensures that they are future proofed against some upgrades in legislation? We started testing for phthalates in toys with plastic components some years ago and toy manufacturers who certified their toys asthma & allergy friendly^TM have since enjoyed the benefits of not having to play catch up when phthalate testing became mandatory in North America in Feb 2009 (CPSIA, Section 108).

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