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01/11/2023
Amazon curtain ANSI/WCMAA100.1-2018 standard revision and test items
01/11/2023
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) adopted a new federal safety standard on November 2, 2022. This standard applies to operating cords for custom-made curtains and is intended to reduce the risk of suffocation death and serious life-threatening injuries to children from corded curtains. The commission also approved a new federal safety rule adding noncompliant curtain cords to the CPSC's list of significant product hazards. The announcement is as follows:
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) adopted a new federal safety standard on November 2, 2022. This standard applies to operating cords for custom-made curtains and is intended to reduce the risk of suffocation death and serious life-threatening injuries to children from corded curtains.
Infants and toddlers can be strangled quickly and quietly by a drawstring on a curtain, continuous loop cord, inner cord, or other accessible cord longer than 8 inches. On average, about nine children under the age of five are strangled by cords attached to blinds, drapes, drapes and other drapes every year, according to the latest CPSC figures.
The new rules reduce the risk of strangulation and injury to children 8 years and younger from all types of curtain cords:
1. Custom Curtains: New mandatory consumer product safety standards specify performance requirements for the safe operation of custom curtains. Products subject to the new standard present an unreasonable risk of injury. The new rules take effect 180 days after publication in the Federal Register.
2. Stock and custom curtains: This rule considers that there are dangerous operating cords and inner cords on stock curtains, and dangerous inner cords on custom curtains are serious product hazards. The new federal safety rules incorporate the latest voluntary standard for curtains/WCMA A100.1-2018 and the U.S. National Standard for Product Safety of Corded Curtains (/WCMA-2018). The rule becomes effective 30 days after publication in the Federal Register and applies to window covering products produced after that date.
corded curtains
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Curtains covered by this policy
Rope curtains are indoor curtains that can be raised and lowered by a hanging rope. Such products include, but are not limited to, cellular shades, horizontal venetian shades, pleated shades, roll-up venetian shades, roller shades, sheer shades, Roman shades, rods (including products that use rods, such as curtains and fabrics with rods blinds), panel tracks and vertical venetian blinds.
Our Corded Curtains Policy
As required by Amazon, all cord shades are tested and comply with the following specific regulations or standards:
| commodity | Regulatory/Standard Requirements |
|---|---|
| corded curtains | All of the following: A test report showing test results in compliance with /WCMA A100.1-2018 (US National Safety Standard for Products with Corded Curtains). |
The first of these new rules will be an amendment to 16 CFR 1112 to indicate that certain non-compliance/WCMA criteria will be considered substantial product hazards under CPSA Section 15(a)(2). Under this new requirement, the following will be considered a substantial hazard for the product:
●Stock curtains that do not meet one or more of the following requirements of /WCMA A100.1 – 2018.
1. The operating rope requirements in Section 4.3.1.1 (Cordless Operating System), Section 4.3.1.2 (Short Static or Access Line), or Section 4.3.1.3 (Inaccessible Operating Line).
2. Inner rope requirements in Section 4.3.1.2.
●Custom curtains do not meet the inner cord requirements of Section 4.5 of /WCMA A100.1 – 2018.
●Stock and custom window coverings that do not meet the requirements in Section 5.3 of /WCMA A100.1 – 2018 regarding product manufacturer's labeling.
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