Mattresses Regulations
- Citation
- SOR/2016-183
- Jurisdiction
- CA
- Made by
- Health Canada
- Instrument
- Regulation
- Status
- In force
What it requires (2 obligations)
When a mattress is tested in accordance with CAN/CGSB-4.2 No. 27.7-2023, Textile test methods — Combustion resistance of mattresses — Cigarette test, published in January 2023, no more than one test specimen may exhibit either melting or charring of the surface extending more than 50 mm in any horizontal direction from the nearest point of the original location of the test cigarette, or continuing combustion in the mattress assembly 10 minutes after the cigarette has extinguished.
No date set Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
- Who it falls on
- Manufacturers, importers and sellers
- Products
- Mattresses, home textiles, textiles
- Markets
- CA
Two independent failure conditions — the 50 mm spread and the 10-minute continuing combustion — and the allowance is at most ONE specimen exhibiting either. The cited standard is a FIXED EDITION, No. 27.7-2023 published in January 2023, unlike the "as amended from time to time" incorporation used by SOR/2016-194 and the playpen and crib rules in this register. One duty moves with the standard and this one does not. 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 section 2, "Combustion resistance", as amended by SOR/2026-113 s. 24.
A mattress means an item intended, promoted or normally used for the purpose of being slept on that contains resilient material enclosed within a ticking. Mattress pads are excluded from the definition.
No date set Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
- Who it falls on
- Manufacturers, importers and sellers
- Products
- Mattresses, home textiles, textiles
- Markets
- CA
The test is "resilient material enclosed within a ticking", and the purpose limb is written three ways — intended, promoted OR normally used — so marketing can bring a product in even where the maker did not design it to be slept on. Note the contrast with the US treatment: 16 CFR 1632 covers mattresses AND mattress pads together, while this definition excludes pads.
Quoted from section 1, "Definition of mattress", including the opening exclusions.
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