Mattress regulations by market
9 obligations that name mattresses in their scope, from 6 instruments across 3 markets, soonest date first, each stating how firm its date actually is.
The instruments (6)
| Instrument | Citation | Market | Made by | Status |
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| Australia Care Labelling Standard | F2023L01187 | AU | Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services | In force |
| Canada Mattresses | SOR/2016-183 | CA | Health Canada | In force |
| US Crib Mattress Safety | 16 CFR Part 1241 | US | Consumer Product Safety Commission | In force |
| US FFA | 15 U.S.C. 1191-1204 | US | Consumer Product Safety Commission | In force |
| US Mattress Cigarette Ignition | 16 CFR Part 1632 | US | Consumer Product Safety Commission | In force |
| US Mattress Open Flame | 16 CFR Part 1633 | US | Consumer Product Safety Commission | In force |
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Australia Care Labelling Standard F2023L01187 AU
Regulated goods must comply with either the requirements in section 11, which apply the Australian/New Zealand Standard AS/NZS 1957:1998 Textiles—Care labelling as varied by that section, or the requirements in section 12, which apply Clause 4 of ISO 3758:2012 Textiles—Care labelling code using symbols. The two routes are alternatives and a compliant article need satisfy only one.
Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
Section 6 defines regulated goods as any clothing, household textiles, apparel including wedding dresses, christening gowns and promotional, sample and flawed articles, furnishings, upholstered furniture, bedding including sleeping bags, mattresses, bed bases, piece goods and yarns made from textiles, plastics, plastic coated fabrics, suede, skins, hides, grain leathers or furs. Section 7 lists ten classes of exempt goods, among them all second-hand goods, all footwear other than hosiery and the textile materials used in making footwear, all jute products, and all bags and cases. The date given here is computed rather than stated: section 2 commences the instrument on 5 September 2023, section 5 defines the first transitional period as six months from commencement and the second as twelve months from the day after the first ends, so section 10 governs from 5 March 2025. Sections 8 and 9, which allowed the repealed 2010 notice as a third route during those periods, each provide for their own repeal at the end of the period they govern. The instrument sets the content of the standard. What follows from supplying goods that do not meet it sits in the Australian Consumer Law, which is Schedule 2 to the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 and is not part of this instrument.
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US Mattress Open Flame 16 CFR Part 1633 US
All mattress sets manufactured, imported or renovated on or after the effective date must meet this standard before sale or introduction into commerce. The requirements apply to each manufacturer of mattress sets manufactured for sale in commerce. One-of-a-kind mattress sets may be exempted from testing under § 1633.13(c).
Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
The scope reaches RENOVATED mattress sets on the same terms as new ones, which the word "manufacture" alone would not suggest — a renovator is inside this standard. Parts 1632 and 1633 are not alternatives. 1632 measures resistance to a lighted cigarette in char length; 1633 measures the size of the fire a mattress set generates over thirty minutes in heat release. Passing one says nothing about the other.
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US Mattress Open Flame 16 CFR Part 1633 US
When tested under § 1633.7 a mattress set must comply with both criteria: the peak rate of heat release must not exceed 200 kilowatts at any time within the thirty minute test, and the total heat release must not exceed 15 megajoules for the first ten minutes. A mattress labelled for sale with a foundation must be tested with that foundation; one labelled for sale without a foundation is tested alone.
Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
Two criteria, both required — a peak limit and a cumulative one, and a set can satisfy either alone while failing the pair. § 1633.3(c) is the provision suppliers trip over: the LABELLING decision determines the test article, so changing whether a mattress is sold with a foundation changes what has to be tested.
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US Mattress Cigarette Ignition 16 CFR Part 1632 US
This standard prescribes testing of prototype designs of mattresses and mattress pads before the sale or introduction in commerce of any mattress or mattress pad subject to it, to determine ignition resistance when exposed to a lighted cigarette. Each manufacturer required to perform prototype testing must perform it with acceptable results before selling in commerce.
Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
A PRE-MARKET duty on the prototype design, discharged before the first unit ships rather than sampled afterwards. Parts 1632 and 1633 are not alternatives. 1632 measures resistance to a lighted cigarette in char length; 1633 measures the size of the fire a mattress set generates over thirty minutes in heat release. Passing one says nothing about the other.
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US Mattress Cigarette Ignition 16 CFR Part 1632 US
The test exposes the surface to lighted cigarettes in a draft-protected environment at smooth, tape edge and quilted or tufted locations where they exist, and also conducts a two-sheet test with burning cigarettes placed between sheets. An individual cigarette test location passes if the char length is not more than 2 inches (5.1 cm) in any direction from the nearest point of the cigarette.
Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
The named locations are construction features — tape edge, quilting, tufting — so the test follows how the mattress is built rather than sampling a flat area. The two-sheet condition tests the cigarette between bedding rather than on the bare surface, which is the realistic case.
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US Crib Mattress Safety 16 CFR Part 1241 US
Crib mattresses within the scope of ASTM F2933 — full-size, non-full-size and after-market — must comply with all applicable provisions of ASTM F2933-21, which this part incorporates by reference.
Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
The substantive requirements are in the ASTM specification rather than in the CFR text, and the part names the exact approved edition. The record carries the general duty the part imposes. It does not enumerate the individual disclosures, exemptions and test conditions, which run to dozens of sections in the part itself.
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Canada Mattresses SOR/2016-183 CA
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.
Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
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.
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Canada Mattresses SOR/2016-183 CA
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.
Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
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.
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US FFA 15 U.S.C. 1191-1204 US
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.
Confirmed In force, dates fixed in published law
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.