1.1 This consumer safety specification establishes safety performance requirements, test methods, and labeling requirements to minimize the hazards to infants presented by nursing pillows.

1.2 This consumer safety specification is intended to minimize the risk of injuries and deaths to infants resulting from normal use and reasonably foreseeable misuse or abuse of nursing pillows.

1.3 This consumer safety performance specification covers any stuffed, filled, or molded-foam product intended, marketed, or designed to position and support an infant close to a caregiver's body while nursing or bottle feeding. In general, this product will be used for infants from newborn until the infant ceases nursing or bottle feeding. These products rest upon, wrap around, or are worn by a caregiver in a seated or reclined position.

1.4 No nursing pillow produced after the approval date of this consumer safety specification shall, either by label or other means, indicate compliance with this specification unless it conforms to all requirements contained herein.

1.5 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded as standard. The values given in parentheses are mathematical conversions to SI units that are provided for information only and are not considered standard

1.6 The following precautionary caveat pertains only to the test methods portion, Section 7, of this specification. This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety, health, and environmental practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.

1.7 This international standard was developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles on standardization established in the Decision on Principles for the Development of International Standards, Guides and Recommendations issued by the World Trade Organization Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee.