Are hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind items, such as handmade children’s clothing, required to be tested and certified under the CPSIA?
A21: In the case of hand-crafted products, the responsibility to have the product tested by a third-party laboratory and to issue a certificate of conformity for the product lies with the person who assembles the finished product and puts the product on the market. The testing requirements do put a burden on these small hand-crafting operations. While they may attempt to pass the burden along to their raw materials suppliers—thread manufacturers, fabric suppliers, etc.—it is the finished product that must comply with the regulations, and it is the individual who is selling the product who must issue the certificate.
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