ASTM F404-99a
(Specification)Standard Consumer Safety Specification for High Chairs
Standard Consumer Safety Specification for High Chairs
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1.1 This consumer safety specification covers the performance requirements and methods of test to ensure the satisfactory performance of the high chair.
1.2 This consumer safety specification is intended to minimize accidents to children resulting from normal usage and reasonably foreseeable misuse or abuse of high chairs. Note 1-This consumer safety specification is not intended to address accidents and injuries resulting from the interaction of older children with children in the high chair or the accidents resulting from abuse and misuse by persons over 3 years of age.
1.3 For the purposes of this consumer safety specification, a high chair is a free standing chair made for the purpose of holding a baby who can remain in a sitting position due to his own coordination, with a tray that is attached to the chair for feeding or eating (unless the chair is constructed to hold a baby in a reclining position for feeding). Such a chair normally elevates the child to standard dining table height. When the child's growth permits him to eat from the table, the tray can be eliminated. Normally, high chairs are used for children between 6 months and 3 years of age.
1.4 No high chair produced after the approval date of this consumer safety specification shall, either by label or other means, indicate compliance with this specification unless it conforms to all requirements contained herein.
1.5 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded as the standard.
1.6 The following precautionary caveat pertains only to the test method portion, Section 6, of this specification: This standard may involve hazardous materials, operations, and equipment. This standard does not purport to address all of the safety problems associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.
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Designation: F 404 – 99a
Standard Consumer Safety Specification for
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High Chairs
This standard is issued under the fixed designation F 404; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
INTRODUCTION
This consumer safety performance specification addresses high chair incidents that were identified
by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
CPSC identified injuries to children associated with tray disengagement, falls resulting when
children stood up on the seat of a high chair, entrapment between the tray and the seat, and tipover.
By far the most common injury resulted from children falling when they were able to stand up on the
seat of the high chair because they were not secured by the restraining system. In response to the
incident data developed by the Commission, this consumer safety performance specification attempts
to minimize the above listed problems.
This consumer safety performance specification does not cover high chairs that are either blatantly
misused or are used in a careless manner that disregards the warnings and safety instructions that are
provided with each high chair.
This consumer safety performance specification is written within the current state-of-the-art of high
chair technology. It is intended that this specification will be updated whenever substantive
information becomes available that necessitates additional requirements or justifies the revision of
existing requirements.
1. Scope 1.4 No high chair produced after the approval date of this
consumer safety specification shall, either by label or other
1.1 This consumer safety specification covers the perfor-
means, indicate compliance with this specification unless it
mance requirements and methods of test to ensure the satis-
conforms to all requirements contained herein.
factory performance of the high chair.
1.5 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded
1.2 This consumer safety specification is intended to mini-
as the standard. The SI units given in parentheses are for
mize injuries to children resulting from normal usage and
information only.
reasonably foreseeable misuse or abuse of high chairs.
1.6 The following precautionary caveat pertains only to the
NOTE 1—This consumer safety specification is not intended to address
test method portion, 9, of this specification: This standard does
accidents and injuries resulting from the interaction of older children with
not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any,
children in the high chair or the accidents resulting from abuse and misuse
associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this
by persons over three years of age.
standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices
1.3 For purposes of this consumer safety specification, a
and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior
high chair is a free standing chair that elevates a child to
to use.
standard dining table height. The high chair is made for the
purpose of holding a child, up to 3 years of age, who can
2. Referenced Documents
remain in a sitting position due to the child’s own coordination,
2.1 ASTM Standards:
and normally for the purposes of feeding or eating. A high chair
D 3359 Test Methods for Measuring Adhesion by Tape
may be height adjustable and include a reclined position for 2
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infants not able to remain in a sitting position due to the child’s
2.2 Federal Regulations:
own coordination.
16 CFR 1303 Ban of Lead-Containing Paint and Certain
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Consumer Products Bearing Lead-Containing Paint
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This consumer safety specification is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Commit-
tee F-15 on Consumer Productsand is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee
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F15.16on High Chairs, Hook-On Chairs, and Expandable Gates. Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Vol 06.01.
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Current edition approved April 10, 1999. Published July 1999. Originally Available from Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing
published as F 404–75. Last previous edition F 404–99. Office, Washington, DC 20402.
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