Coated fabric regulations by market

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  US Vinyl Plastic Film Flammability 16 CFR Part 1611 US

  The material covered is nonrigid, unsupported vinyl plastic film — transparent, translucent or opaque, whether plain, embossed, moulded or otherwise surface treated.

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  "Nonrigid, unsupported" is doing the work: a film laminated to a carrier fabric is supported, and § 1611.34 decides which standard then applies. Surface treatment does not take material out of scope — embossed and moulded are named expressly.

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  US Vinyl Plastic Film Flammability 16 CFR Part 1611 US

  The rate of burning must not exceed 1.2 inches per second, judged by the average of five determinations lengthwise and five transverse to the direction of processing, when tested with the SPI flammability tester by the method in § 1611.4.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  A burn RATE, where every other Flammable Fabrics Act standard in this register measures a burn TIME in seconds (16 CFR 1610) or a char LENGTH (1615, 1616, 1630, 1631). The figures are not comparable across standards and should not be read across.

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  US Vinyl Plastic Film Flammability 16 CFR Part 1611 US

  The two averages are assessed separately: compute the average burn rate from five specimens burned transverse to the direction of processing and, separately, from five burned lengthwise. If EITHER average exceeds 1.2 inches per second, the test result is a failure. No article of wearing apparel or fabric subject to the Act may be marketed or handled if, tested under section 4(a), it is so highly flammable as to be dangerous when worn.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Averaging all ten specimens together would pass material that fails — a directional weakness is exactly what the split is designed to catch, and film has a direction of processing by definition. The marketing prohibition uses the same "marketed or handled" wording as § 1610.32, so it reaches goods moving through a chain before any consumer sale.

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  US Vinyl Plastic Film Flammability 16 CFR Part 1611 US

  Only the uncovered or exposed part of an article of wearing apparel is tested. Where the outer layer of plastic film or plastic-coated fabric of a multilayer fabric separates readily from the other layers, the outer layer is tested under Part 1611. Where the outer layer adheres to all or a portion of one or more underlying layers, the multilayered fabric may be tested under either Part 1611 or Part 1610, the Standard for the Flammability of Clothing Textiles.

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  This is the provision that connects the record to 16 CFR Part 1610, already held here. For a coated or laminated fabric the applicable standard is decided by whether the coating SEPARATES READILY — a construction question answered at the laminator, not a paperwork one. A supplier of coated fabric reading either Part alone cannot tell which applies to their goods. Note also that Part 1615 supersedes BOTH 1610 and 1611 for children's sleepwear in sizes 0-6X.

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  US Upholstered Furniture Flammability 16 CFR Part 1640 US

  All upholstered furniture as defined in § 1640.3, manufactured, imported or reupholstered on or after the effective date, is subject to this part, and all such furniture must comply with the California standard, Technical Bulletin TB 117-2013, incorporated by reference at § 1640.6.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  This Part sets no test of its own — it adopts a STATE agency's technical bulletin as the federal standard, so a supplier reading Part 1640 for a procedure finds a citation. Scope reaches REUPHOLSTERY on the same terms as manufacture and import, which the word "manufacture" alone would not suggest. The substance is California Technical Bulletin TB 117-2013, "Requirements, Test Procedure and Apparatus for Testing the Smolder Resistance of Materials Used in Upholstered Furniture", published June 2013 and incorporated by reference at § 1640.6.

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  US Upholstered Furniture Flammability 16 CFR Part 1640 US

  Each manufacturer of a product subject to the California standard must include the statement "Complies with U.S. CPSC requirements for upholstered furniture flammability" on a permanent label located on the product. That label is considered to be the certification that the product complies with the standard.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  The wording is prescribed verbatim and the label IS the certification — there is no separate certificate to issue. The label must be PERMANENT and on the product, so a hangtag or carton marking does not discharge it.

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  US Upholstered Furniture Flammability 16 CFR Part 1640 US

  A fabric, related material or product to which the California standard applies is not subject to section 14(a) of the Consumer Product Safety Act with respect to that standard.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  This disapplies the usual CPSA certification machinery for this standard, which is why § 1640.4(b) has to make the label do the work. A supplier who produces a general conformity certificate and omits the permanent label has satisfied a requirement that does not apply and missed the one that does.

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  US Upholstered Furniture Flammability 16 CFR Part 1640 US

  No State or political subdivision of a State may establish or continue in effect any provision of a flammability law, regulation, code, standard or requirement designed to protect against the occurrence of fire, or to slow or prevent the spread of fire, with respect to upholstered furniture — except as provided in sections 1374, 1374.2 and 1374.3 of title 4 of the California Code of Regulations (other than subsections (b) and (c) of section 1374) or in the California standard itself.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  This inverts the usual state/federal question. A supplier ordinarily asks whether a state rule is stricter than the federal one; here the federal rule IS the California one and other states are shut out of the field entirely. Recorded as an obligation rather than background because it tells a supplier which enquiries they do NOT have to make. § 1640.5(c) preserves certain other state law, which is not recorded here.

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  Canada Tents Regulations SOR/2024-217 CA

  Fabric and other pliable material of a tent, or of its components and accessories, must meet the requirements set out in section 5.2.1 of CAN/CGSB-182.1-2020 when tested in accordance with that standard.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Components and accessories reach beyond the tent itself to side panels, curtains, footprints, flies and gear lofts, whether sold with the tent or separately. Four things are carved out and the carve-outs are where a supplier will look first: packaging, threads and zips and ropes and hook-and-loop and webbing, labels and logos of 1,000 square centimetres or less, and any fabric or pliable material of 1,000 square centimetres or less. The requirement itself is in CAN/CGSB-182.1-2020, which these Regulations incorporate as amended from time to time rather than at a fixed edition.

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  Canada Tents Regulations SOR/2024-217 CA

  Flooring materials of a tent, as defined in section 4.3 of CAN/CGSB-182.1-2020, that do not meet the requirements of section 5.2.1 of that standard must instead meet the requirements of section 5.3.1 of it.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  A second route rather than an exemption: groundsheet material that fails the general fabric requirement is not thereby non-compliant, it is judged against a different clause of the same standard. Which clause applies turns on the standard's own definition of flooring, not on what the maker calls it.

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  Canada Tents Regulations SOR/2024-217 CA

  Where a new version of CAN/CGSB-182.1 is published, a tent that meets the requirement as it read immediately before that day may continue to meet that earlier requirement for one year from that day in the case of manufacture or import, and for two years from that day in the case of advertisement or sale.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  The counterweight to an incorporation that moves. Because the standard is adopted as amended from time to time, a new CGSB edition changes what these Regulations require without any further instrument being made; this section is what stops that being immediate. The two clocks differ by a year, and both start on the day the new version is published rather than on the day it is noticed, so the period is shorter than it looks for anyone who finds out late.

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  Canada Phthalates Regulations SOR/2016-188 CA

  The vinyl in a toy or child care article must not contain more than 1,000 mg/kg of di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), dibutyl phthalate (DBP) or benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP), when tested by a method conforming to good laboratory practices.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  This limit reaches all the vinyl in the article, not only the parts a child might mouth - which is what separates it from section 3. What counts as vinyl is not defined anywhere in these Regulations, so whether a plastisol print or a PVC-coated face fabric falls inside it is a question the text leaves open. The Regulations define a toy as a product intended for use by a child under 14 years of age in learning or play, and a child care article as a product intended to facilitate the relaxation, sleep, hygiene, feeding, sucking or teething of a child under four - which reaches bibs, changing mats and cot articles that are textile products before they are anything else.

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  Canada Phthalates Regulations SOR/2016-188 CA

  The vinyl in any part of a toy or child care article that can, in a reasonably foreseeable manner, be placed in the mouth of a child under four years of age must not contain more than 1,000 mg/kg of diisononyl phthalate (DINP), diisodecyl phthalate (DIDP) or di-n-octyl phthalate (DNOP), when tested by a method conforming to good laboratory practices.

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  A different list of three phthalates against a narrower scope, at the same numerical limit. Testing a component against the section 2 list when section 3 governs it, or the reverse, is the wrong test rather than a conservative one: the two lists share no substance.

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  Canada Phthalates Regulations SOR/2016-188 CA

  A part can be placed in the mouth of a child under four years of age, for the purpose of the DINP, DIDP and DNOP limit, if it can be brought to the child's mouth and kept there so that it can be sucked or chewed, and one of its dimensions is less than 5 cm. Where the part is inflatable, its dimensions are determined in its deflated state.

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  A mechanical test rather than a judgement about how a child plays, and both limbs must be satisfied - a part that can be sucked but has no dimension under 5 cm is outside the section. The deflated-state rule matters to inflatable and padded articles whose dimensions in use would put them outside it.

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  POPs Regulation Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 EU

  Substances listed in Annex I may not be manufactured, placed on the market or used, including as constituents of articles, above the concentration limits that Annex sets.

  Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law

  Reaches textiles mainly through the perfluorinated substances used in durable water repellent finishes. The limits sit in Annex I and are amended by separate delegated regulations, so the base text is the framework and not the current list. Unlike REACH restrictions, a POPs limit applies to the substance as an unintentional trace contaminant as well as an intentional ingredient.