Which CPSC rules name button cell or coin batteries?

1 part of 16 CFR name button cell and coin batteries in their own title or scope: 16 CFR Part 1263. Each is quoted below from the eCFR, with the exact citation to write on the certificate under 16 CFR 1110.11(a)(2). Whether a rule covers a particular item is the certifier's judgement under 16 CFR 1110.15, not something this list decides.

Rules that name button cell and coin batteries

• 16 CFR Part 1263amended 2024-09-23

  Safety Standard for Button Cell or Coin Batteries and Consumer Products Containing Such Batteries

  (a) Scope and purpose. As required by Reese's Law (15 U.S.C 2056e, Pub. L. 117-171), this part establishes performance and labeling requirements for consumer products containing button cell or coin batteries to prevent child access to batteries during reasonably foreseeable use and misuse of the consumer product. The part is intended to eliminate or adequately reduce the risk of injury and death to children 6 years old and younger from ingesting these batteries. This part also establishes warning label requirements for packaging of consumer products containing button cell or coin batteries, these consumer products, and instructions and manuals accompanying these consumer products. Additionally, this part establishes warning label requirements for packaging of button cell or coin batteries, including button cell or coin batteries packaged separately with a consumer product.

  Named here because the part’s own text reads “Button Cell or Coin Batteries and Consumer Products Containing Such Batteries”. Read it on the eCFR

On the certificate

Whichever of these rules the certifier decides to cite, 16 CFR 1110.11(a)(2) requires each one to be stated separately. The certificate carries the same seven elements in every case — see what a certificate must contain for each one and the text it comes from.

Questions

Which CPSC rules name button cell and coin batteries?

1 part of title 16 name button cell and coin batteries in the part's own title or scope: 16 CFR Part 1263. Each is quoted on this page from the eCFR. A rule naming a product class is not a finding that it covers any particular item.

Does a button cell or coin battery need a CPC or a GCC?

Finished product certificate means a certificate of compliance for a finished product, as defined in this section, that is required by § 1110.5. There are two types of finished product certificates: Children's Product Certificates (CPCs) and General Certificates of Conformity (GCCs). Which one a finished product takes follows from whether it is a children's product. Children's product means a consumer product designed or intended primarily for children 12 years of age or younger. That determination is the certifier's, not something a product category can settle.

What has to be on the certificate?

16 CFR 1110.11(a) requires seven elements: product identification, rules certified to, finished product certifier, individual maintaining records, date and place of manufacture, date and place of testing, certifier's attestation. They are the same seven whether the certificate is a CPC or a GCC.

Does a rule listed here apply to my button cell or coin battery?

Not necessarily. This page reports which parts name the product class in their own text. Whether a given rule covers a particular item, and therefore belongs on its certificate, is the certifier's judgement under 16 CFR 1110.15. Read each part's scope before citing it.