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The British Standards Institute (BSI) has published a new standard specification BS 8510:2009 aimed specifically at the Child Care market.
This standard attempts to specify the minimum performance requirements for articles intended as sleep bags (sleep sacs) for infants of 4kg or more.
The specification is not intended for articles of clothing such as sleep suits or baby gros or indeed for articles intended to keep babies warm when in a pushchair or similar conveyance. Neither is it intended for sleeping bags for leisure activities such as camping.
The specification gives minimum performance requirements for:
chemical hazards; thermal hazards (insulation maxima); entrapment, entanglement, choking, ingestion and suffocation hazards; structural integrity and flammability.
The last point regarding flammability simply states that the article shall conform to EN 14878. It is presumed that for babies over six months this means "Class A" performance as defined in EN 14878, as this article is not pyjamas.
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