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CPC for children’s ski goggles
Children’s ski goggles 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, phthalate, impact, 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 ski goggles
- Lead and phthalate screening on frames, straps, foam; lens impact behavior per snow-sports eyewear standards.
- 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
Lens impact resistance, materials screening, strap strength, ventilation design.
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 ski-goggle standard?
No federal mandate, but ASTM F659 is the recognized standard and retailers expect impact-tested lenses.
Do toddler ski goggles test the same?
Same materials and impact testing; smaller frames change fit fixtures.