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The U.S. Flammable Fabrics Act is an act that was passed in 1953 to regulate the manufacture of highly flammable clothing. It was enacted after a series of tragic deaths in the 1940s involving children who were wearing long rayon pile cowboy chaps or brushed rayon sweaters. The Federal Trade Commission was initially placed as the enforcement authority but this responsibility was later transferred over to the Consumer Product Safety Commission in 1967 when the act was amended to include interior furnishings, paper, plastic, foam, and other materials used in wearing apparel and interior furnishings. The Consumer Product Safety Commission was given the authority, under the U.S. Flammable Fabrics Act, to issue mandatory flammability standards. Flammability standards for clothing textiles, viny

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rdfs:comment	The U.S. Flammable Fabrics Act is an act that was passed in 1953 to regulate the manufacture of highly flammable clothing. It was enacted after a series of tragic deaths in the 1940s involving children who were wearing long rayon pile cowboy chaps or brushed rayon sweaters. The Federal Trade Commission was initially placed as the enforcement authority but this responsibility was later transferred over to the Consumer Product Safety Commission in 1967 when the act was amended to include interior furnishings, paper, plastic, foam, and other materials used in wearing apparel and interior furnishings. The Consumer Product Safety Commission was given the authority, under the U.S. Flammable Fabrics Act, to issue mandatory flammability standards. Flammability standards for clothing textiles, viny (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Textile industry of the United States Bill (law) Republican Party (United States) United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Lyndon B. Johnson Fire prevention law 83rd United States Congress 90th United States Congress Dwight D. Eisenhower Federal Trade Commission Hotel and Motel Fire Safety Act of 1990 Charles A. Wolverton 1953 in American law Fire prevention Pile (textile) New Jersey Rayon Title 15 of the United States Code United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce Consumer Product Safety Commission
Link from a Wikipage to an external page	https://archive.org/details/4731566.1967.001.umich.edu/page/196 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-81/pdf/STATUTE-81-Pg1121.pdf
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introducedby	Charles A. Wolverton (en)
introduceddate	1953-05-07 (xsd:date)
introducedin	House (en)
passedbody	House (en) Senate (en)
passeddate	1953-06-03 (xsd:date) 1953-06-18 (xsd:date)
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shorttitle	U.S. Flammable Fabrics Act (en)
signeddate	1953-06-30 (xsd:date)
signedpresident	Dwight D. Eisenhower
committees	United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce
enacted by	83.0 (rod)
nickname	Flammable Fabrics Act (en)
has abstract	The U.S. Flammable Fabrics Act is an act that was passed in 1953 to regulate the manufacture of highly flammable clothing. It was enacted after a series of tragic deaths in the 1940s involving children who were wearing long rayon pile cowboy chaps or brushed rayon sweaters. The Federal Trade Commission was initially placed as the enforcement authority but this responsibility was later transferred over to the Consumer Product Safety Commission in 1967 when the act was amended to include interior furnishings, paper, plastic, foam, and other materials used in wearing apparel and interior furnishings. The Consumer Product Safety Commission was given the authority, under the U.S. Flammable Fabrics Act, to issue mandatory flammability standards. Flammability standards for clothing textiles, vinyl plastic film in clothing, carpets, rugs, children's sleepwear, mattresses, and mattress pads have all been established. (en)
colloquialacronym	FFA (en)
longtitle	An Act to prohibit the introduction or movement in interstate commerce of articles of wearing apparel and fabrics which are so highly flammable as to be dangerous when worn by Individuals, and for other purposes. (en)
sections created	§ 1191 et seq. (en)
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is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of	Timeline of the Lyndon B. Johnson presidency (1967) Tris(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl)phosphate Hotel and Motel Fire Safety Act of 1990 Infant clothing Flame retardant Title 15 of the United States Code
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