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CPC for children’s skateboards
Children’s skateboards designed or marketed to children 12 and under are children’s products: they need third-party testing at a CPSC-accepted laboratory and a Children’s Product Certificate citing lead, mechanical, and children’s-product rules, plus tracking labels on the product and packaging. The importer or US manufacturer issues the CPC — marketplaces can request it at any time.
Which rules apply to children’s skateboards
- Deck structural integrity and delamination review, truck and wheel integrity, grip-tape adhesion, lead in coatings, phthalates in plastic wheels.
- CPSIA section 101 total lead content in accessible substrate materials.
- 16 CFR part 1303 lead in paint and surface coatings where painted or coated.
- CPSIA section 103 tracking labels: manufacturer, location, and date of manufacture on product and packaging.
The testing and certification path
Deck strength and fatigue, truck and axle integrity, wheel security, materials screening.
Book testing at a laboratory that is CPSC-accepted for each rule, issue the CPC in your own name citing the rules your report supports, and keep the certificate with its test report for at least five years. Marketplaces ask for the pair, not the certificate alone.
Questions people ask
Is there a mandatory federal skateboard standard?
No: certification cites the general children’s rules with documented design testing.
Do complete boards test differently from decks-only?
Test what ships in the box.