In Jul 2020, American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) published latest ASTM F3317 - 20 for ‘Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Infant Floor Seat’.

This consumer safety specification is intended to minimize injuries to children resulting from normal usage and reasonably foreseeable misuse or abuse of infant floor seats. This consumer safety specification is not intended to address accidents and injuries resulting from the interaction of older children with children in infant floor seats.

The significant changes between ASTM F3317 - 20 and ASTM F3317 - 18a are as follows:

• Revisions to the stability test requirements and test methods to ensure that products with active restraints and without active restraints and appropriately tested to account for the issues CPSC identified in a recalled product.
• Occupant retention requirement revised as the restraint requirement and having more clarity in requirement and eliminating the test.