Mattress Flammability Reporting Rules Up for Renewal
Published Date: 6/18/2026
Notice
Summary
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is asking for your thoughts on keeping their rules about how mattresses and mattress pads must resist catching fire. This affects mattress makers and sellers who need to keep sharing safety info. Comments are open until August 17, 2026, and there’s no new cost—just a chance to help keep everyone safe and sound while they sleep!
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 3 costs, 0 mixed.
Smoldering Test & Label Rules
If you manufacture or import mattresses or mattress pads, you must test prototypes to ensure they resist ignition from a smoldering cigarette, keep prototype test records for 3 years, and permanently label each mattress or pad with the month and year of manufacture and the manufacturer’s location. Mattress pads treated with chemical flame retardants must also carry a prominent "T" label and instructions to protect the treatment.
Open-Flame Mattress Set Requirements
If you make or import mattress sets, you must limit mattress-set fire size via prototype open-flame testing, maintain records on prototype testing, pooling, confirmation testing, and quality assurance for as long as the prototype-based sets are in production and for 3 years after production ends, and place a permanent, conspicuous label on each mattress set with specified information (see 16 CFR 1633.2).
Estimated Annual Compliance Cost
CPSC estimates the annual recordkeeping burden for these standards totals 33,440 hours and an annualized cost of $2,676,537.60 (about $2.7 million) based on an $80.04 hourly compensation rate. CPSC estimates mattress pad producers average 3 prototypes per year and mattress producers average 8 prototypes per year, with 5 hours of labeling and recordkeeping per prototype.
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