Feds Beef Up Rules for Baby Bouncer Fortresses
Published Date: 1/21/2025
Proposed Rule
Summary
The Consumer Product Safety Commission wants your thoughts on updates to the safety rules for stationary activity centers—those fun baby play stations! These changes come from a new version of a safety guide and could make these products even safer. If you have ideas or concerns, speak up by February 4, 2025, so everyone can keep babies safe without extra costs or delays.
Analyzed Economic Effects
1 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Revised ASTM Standard May Become Mandatory
ASTM told the Commission on January 6, 2025 that it published a revised voluntary standard for stationary activity centers (ASTM F2012-24). If the Commission does not formally reject that revision within 90 days, the revised standard will become a mandatory consumer product safety standard 180 days after the Commission received the notice (i.e., effective July 5, 2025).
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