The Consumer Product Safety Commission has withdrawn accreditation for four consumer product testing laboratories in China after finding that they issued unreliable or falsified reports, concealed the loss of accreditation by international authorities, and/or certified products that later failed independent safety testing.
Under the Consumer Product Safety Act importers and manufacturers must certify that their products comply with U.S. safety standards before they can be sold in the U.S. Children’s products, in particular, must be tested by a CPSC-accepted third-party laboratory and accompanied by certificates based on those test results.
However, the CPSC states that it has had “longstanding concerns about structural weaknesses in the global laboratory accreditation system, including in the People’s Republic of China, which lacks independent oversight and meaningful whistleblower protections.” In such countries the “CPSC cannot reasonably rely on self-attestations or paper compliance alone to ensure the integrity of safety testing that protects American families.”
The CPSC has therefore withdrawn accreditation for the following four Chinese labs.
- Shenzhen GTT Testing Technology Co. Ltd.
- Dongguan True Safety Testing Co. Ltd.
- Fujian Berton Testing Service Co. Ltd.
- Shenzhen HUAK Testing Technology Co. Ltd.
As a result, certifications from these labs are no longer being accepted, and companies relying on reports from these labs must obtain new testing and certification from properly-accredited labs before importing or selling regulated products in the U.S.
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