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CPSC to Vote on Mandatory Test Methods for Lead Paint on Children’s Products

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is scheduled to vote by March 29, 2011 on a draft Federal Register notice that would revise its September 2008 notice of lab accreditation requirements for third-party labs to test children’s products for compliance with…

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the lead paint ban of 16 CFR Part 1303. CPSC states that its 2008 notice did not specify that labs use any specific test method. In response to requests by third-party labs that CPSC be more specific, the draft revision would require third-party accredited labs to use CPSC and/or ASTM published test methods upon publication of the notice in the Federal Register.