Flammable Fabrics Act
- Citation
- 15 U.S.C. 1191-1204
- Jurisdiction
- US
- Made by
- Consumer Product Safety Commission
- Instrument
- Act
- Status
- In force
What it requires (2 obligations)
The manufacture for sale, sale, offering for sale, importation into the United States, introduction or delivery for introduction into commerce, transportation in commerce, or sale or delivery after sale or shipment in commerce, of any product, fabric or related material that fails to conform to an applicable standard or regulation issued under section 1193 is unlawful, and is an unfair method of competition and an unfair and deceptive act or practice under the Federal Trade Commission Act.
No date set Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
- Who it falls on
- Manufacturers, importers and sellers
- Products
- Textiles, apparel, home textiles, upholstery, mattresses, carpets, floor coverings
- Markets
- US
This is the section the ten recorded 16 CFR flammability parts rest on; each of them states a test method and a pass criterion, and none of them states the prohibition. The route to enforcement runs through the FTC Act rather than through the standard itself. Section 1191 defines the reach: "product" is any article of wearing apparel or interior furnishing, and "interior furnishing" is any furnishing made in whole or in part of fabric or related material intended for, or reasonably expected to be used in, homes, offices or other places of assembly or accommodation. "Fabric" excludes fibre, filament or yarn - but only where it is for other than retail sale, so yarn sold at retail falls inside the Act.
Drafted from section 1192(a).
The same prohibition applies to any product made of fabric or related material that fails to conform to an applicable standard or regulation and that has been shipped or received in commerce.
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
- US
Subsection (b) reaches the converter and the cut-and-sew operation rather than the mill: the article is caught because of the cloth it is made from, whoever wove that cloth. A finished garment can be nonconforming without its maker having tested anything.
Drafted from section 1192(b).
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