Compliance Information About new Standards
Certificates of Compliance
Our products have been tested in accordance with CPSC, ASTM, and most are also JPMA certified. The link will take you to a page with the current certificates of compliance for our cribs. Be aware that if your crib was manufactured before the date specified on the certificate, CPSC will not consider your crib to be compliant to the new regulations. If you run a day care, these must be kept on file.
New Standards for All Crib Manufacturers
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recently passed new regulations for cribs. These new regulations affect all portions of the childe care industry, from retailers to day care providers. As of June 28, 2011, no crib may be sold in the US if it is not compliant with the CPSC 16 CFR 1220 requirements for Non-Full Size Cribs and CPSC 16 CFR 1219 Standards for Full Size Baby Cribs. L.A. Baby are proud to announce that all of our cribs that are currently available to our distribution channels are compliant with the CPSC standards.
A Brief Explanation Of the New Standards
On December 28, 2010 the CPSC enacted new legislation to protect children. These sweeping laws were enacted as a response to several deaths that were caused by the failures of structural elements on the cribs (none of these deaths occured in an L.A. Baby Crib). The last time that the reguations of cribs had been revised was in the early 1980s when CPSC 16 CFR 1508/1509 was put into effect. The new standards that were rattified in 2010 replace the old standards with changes that are designed to improve the safety of babies in any sleeping environment, be it a home, a hotel, or a day care center. The new laws address the following issues:
- Ban on drop side cribs. Immobilizing and retrofitting are forbidden.
- Stronger sides, legs, and mattress support panels.
- Cribs must survive a more severe “torture” test while sustaining minimal damage.
- Anti-loosening devices must be in place at fasteners for crib. (L.A. Baby uses lock nuts or locking washers depending on model of crib.)
Common Questions About the new Regulations
There is a lot of confusion in the industry about the new standards, check out these frequently asked questions to clear up some of the confusion.
Going the Extra Mile, for your little Star!
At L.A. Baby, every baby is a star, and stars have every right to demand
safety! We at L.A. Baby are committed to the safety of our smallest customers
and have decided to go ahead of the competition by ensuring that on top of the
already stringent new CPSC standards, our commercial products are compliant
with the even more stringent ASTM #2710 Commercial
Crib Standard.
You are entitled to expect high quality from your juvenile product
manufacturer, and L.A. Baby is happy to be your partner in ensuring the safety
of your little star!
More Details about ASTM 2710 Commercial Crib Standards
Why merely get a passing grade when you can stand above the crowd? CPSC’s new durability and safety requirements for cribs are tough to meet, crib slats must be able to handle a lot of stress on them, the mattress support panel must stay in place, and parts must not come apart during stress testing. These are the minimum requirements. At L.A. Baby, when it comes to the quality of our cribs, and the safety of your child, simply “passing” is not good enough. That’s why L.A. Baby chose to, in addition to ensuring that our products would meet the CPSC’s standards, go to an organization whose testing is much more stringent and puts our products through levels of abuse and torture that are many times greater than what CPSC’s testing puts the cribs through. Here are just some high-lights of what a crib must go through in order to be certified as an ASTM 2710 Commercial crib.
- Extra Weight Resistance
- CPSC requires 80 lbs placed on the posture board during its durability testing. ASTM 2710 requires that 180 lbs be placed on the postureboard for the same testing.
- Evacuation Threshold Test
- ASTM 2710 requires that a crib be loaded with 180 lbs (82 kg) of weight and passed over that same width gap 500 times without the caster rotating and getting lodged into the gap. In addition to rolling freely over the gap, crib components may not become separated. This is 100 lbs greater than the static load test required by CPSC.
- More Stringent Testing
- In addition to this requirement, ASTM 2710 requires a crib to withstand impacts and abuses many times greater than what will be encountered in actual usage.
For inquiries regarding safety testing and certificates of compliance please contact:
L.A. Baby by Fax at: (626) 336-0488
By email at: juan@lababyco.com.
You can also write us at:
L.A. Baby
16039 Loukelton Street
City of Industry, CA. 91744
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