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Children's Toys and Child Care Articles: Determinations Regarding the ASTM F963 Elements and Phthalates for Unfinished Manufactured Fibers

16 CFR Part 1253

16 CFR Part 1253 is Children's Toys and Child Care Articles: Determinations Regarding the ASTM F963 Elements and Phthalates for Unfinished Manufactured Fibers. To certify a product to it, 16 CFR 1110.11(a)(2) requires the rule to be stated separately on the certificate, written as "16 CFR Part 1253 — Children's Toys and Child Care Articles: Determinations Regarding the ASTM F963 Elements and Phthalates for Unfinished Manufactured Fibers", supported by testing from a laboratory CPSC has accepted for this rule. The eCFR records this part as last amended on 2020-07-08.

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16 CFR Part 1253 — Children's Toys and Child Care Articles: Determinations Regarding the ASTM F963 Elements and Phthalates for Unfinished Manufactured Fibers

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Scope, from the regulation

Children's toys and child care articles containing the ASTM F963 elements and phthalates in manufactured fibers and testing requirements. (a) Section 106 of the CPSIA made most provisions of ASTM F963, Consumer Product Safety Specifications for Toy Safety, a mandatory consumer product safety standard. 16 CFR part 1250 codified these provisions by incorporating by reference ASTM F963, see 16 CFR1250.1. Among the mandated provisions is section 4.3.5 of ASTM F963, which requires that surface coating materials and accessible substrates of children's toys that can be sucked, mouthed, or ingested, must comply with solubility limits that the toy standard establishes for eight elements. Materials used in children's toys subject to section 4.3.5 of the toy standard must comply with the third party testing requirements of section 14(a)(2) of the CPSA, unless listed in § 1253.2. (b) Section 108(a)

Quoted from 16 CFR Part 1253 on the eCFR, retrieved 2026-08-24 and last amended, per the eCFR, on 2020-07-08. The eCFR is the authoritative text; this page is a convenience copy.

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