Canada Textile Flammability — SOR/2016-194
- Citation
- SOR/2016-194
- Jurisdiction
- CA
- Made by
- Health Canada
- Instrument
- Regulation
- Status
- In force
What it requires (3 obligations)
These Regulations do not apply to children's sleepwear in sizes up to and including 14X; dolls, plush toys, soft toys and toys intended to be entered by a child; cribs, cradles and bassinets; playpens; expansion gates and expandable enclosures for children; textile floor coverings; tents; or mattresses.
No date set Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
- Who it falls on
- Manufacturers, importers and sellers
- Products
- Textiles, apparel, home textiles
- Markets
- CA
This is the RESIDUAL rule: it governs whatever is not carved out. Seven of the eight excluded categories have their own instrument, several of which this register already holds — playpens SOR/2018-186, cribs cradles and bassinets SOR/2016-152, mattresses SOR/2016-183, tents SOR/2024-217. A supplier who finds this general rule first and stops has skipped the specific one that actually governs their product.
Quoted from section 2, "Non-application", paragraphs (a) to (h), as amended by SOR/2024-217 s. 7.
The flame spread time for textile products without a raised fibre surface must be greater than 3.5 seconds. For textile products with a raised fibre surface that exhibits ignition or fusion of its base fibres, the flame spread time must be greater than 4 seconds.
No date set Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
- Who it falls on
- Manufacturers, importers and sellers
- Products
- Textiles, apparel, home textiles
- Markets
- CA
The raised-surface limb is conditional in the same way as 16 CFR 1610: it bites only where the surface ignites or the base fibres fuse. The structure mirrors the US rule and the NUMBERS DO NOT — the US Class 1 limits are 3.5 and 7.0 seconds where Canada sets 3.5 and 4. A US test result carried north on the assumption the tests agree is relying on figures that differ.
Quoted from section 3, subsections (1) and (2).
The flame spread time for bedding without a raised fibre surface, or bedding with a raised fibre surface that exhibits ignition or fusion of its base fibres, must be greater than 7 seconds. Flame spread time must be determined according to the Canadian General Standards Board standard CAN/CGSB-4.2 No. 27.5, Textile Test Methods: Flame Resistance — 45° Angle Test — One-Second Flame Impingement, as amended from time to time.
No date set Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
- Who it falls on
- Manufacturers, importers and sellers
- Products
- Home textiles, textiles
- Markets
- CA
Bedding is held to a single 7-second threshold across both surface conditions, where general textiles are split 3.5 / 4 — so bedding is the stricter case and the surface distinction stops mattering. The method is incorporated "as amended from time to time", so the duty follows the current edition. CGSB standards cannot be linked from this register: there is no per-standard page that resolves — scc.ca returns 404 to its own search and publications.gc.ca returns 404 and disallows its search paths.
Quoted from sections 4 and 5.
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