Australia has Published Mandatory Standards for Infant Products

Australia has published two mandatory standards for Infant Products on 18 July 2024.

The first one is the Consumer Goods (Infant Sleep Products) Safety Standard 2024 which has a commencement date on 19 July 2024 and a transition period of 18 months. It replaces the current mandatory standards for folding cots and household cots, and also sets safety requirements for other infant sleep products.

The other one is the Consumer Goods (Infant Products) Information Standard 2024 which has a commencement date on 19 January 2026. This standard sets new labeling requirements for infant products.

The Consumer Goods (Infant Sleep Products) Safety Standard 2024 applies to Infant Sleeping Product with the following definition:

Infant Sleep Product:

means a product that:
1. is designed, intended, marketed, supplied, or offered for supply, for use as a sleeping facility for an infant or for use as a facility to soothe or settle an infant; and
2. has a surface on which an infant may lay; and

includes a product that is designed to convert to an infant sleep product.
This standard sets safety requirements for folding cots, household cots, bassinets and other infant sleep products as listed in the table below

Product	Requirements
Folding Cots	Division 2 – General requirement Division 3 Subdivision B - Specific requirements for folding cots
Household Cots	Division 2 – General requirement Division 3 Subdivision C - Specific requirements for household cots
Bassinets	Division 2 – General requirement Division 3 Subdivision A - Specific requirements for bassinets
Other Infant Sleep Products	Division 2 – General requirement

The Consumer Goods (Infant Products) Information Standard 2024 applies to Infant Product with the following definitions:

Infant Product means:

an infant sleep product; or
an inclined non sleep product.

Inclined Non Sleep Product means a product that:

is designed, intended, marketed, supplied, or offered for supply, for use by an infant; and
has a surface on which an infant may lay; and
when used, may position the infant’s head above the horizontal; and
is not supplied, or offered for supply, as an infant sleep product and does not purport that it is suitable for infant sleep, even if an infant may fall asleep when using the product.

This standard sets the requirements for:

Information to be provided with infant products
Markings required for infant products
Warnings on infant products
Warnings on packaging of infant products
Warnings to be displayed online or in store

Additional Information:
https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2024L00891/latest/text

https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2024L00892/asmade/text

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