CPSC Updates Child Resistance Requirements for Gas Cans

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is updating its child safety standard for gasoline can caps in order to incorporate the latest revisions to the ASTM industry standard, in a direct final rule (here). ASTM told the commission in February that it had updated the portable gasoline container standard’s child resistance requirements, said CPSC. The revised standard will take effect April 12, unless comments opposing the change are submitted to CPSC by April 3.