Federal, state and export
Compliance software for US manufacturers
CPSC, TSCA, Proposition 65, FCC, FDA, and a packaging law in every other state. They arrive separately and apply to overlapping parts of a catalogue, which is why they end up in six spreadsheets. Certean holds them against the product, with the CE and UKCA obligations your exports carry sitting next to them.
- Federal and state obligations held per product, not per agency
- CPSC certificates and eFiling data generated from the product record
- State chemical and EPR laws tracked as they diverge from each other
- Export requirements — CE, UKCA, and the rest — in the same register
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Take the two-minute assessment first — five questions across the main parts of ISO 37301 — and we will open the call on your own score, markets and regimes instead of on the basics.
Why it fragments
Who you answer to
Six regimes, one product record
CPSC
Children’s Product Certificates and General Certificates of Conformity, third-party testing by CPSC-accepted laboratories, and electronic filing at entry. The certificate is only as current as the test behind it.
EPA and TSCA
Chemical Data Reporting, significant new use rules, the PFAS reporting rule under section 8(a)(7), and import certification. Substance questions that land on the bill of materials, not on the factory.
State law
California Proposition 65 warnings at their own thresholds, state PFAS bans with staggered effective dates, and packaging EPR programmes in a growing list of states that do not agree on definitions.
FCC
Equipment authorisation for anything intentionally or unintentionally radiating: certification or Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity, test reports from a recognised lab, and labelling obligations.
FDA
Where the product is a device, contacts food, or emits radiation. Registration and listing, premarket pathways, and the quality system expectations that come with them.
Export obligations
Most US manufacturers also sell abroad, which adds CE marking, UKCA, REACH and RoHS to the same products. Keeping them in one register is what stops a second parallel process forming.
FAQ
US compliance, answered
- What compliance software do US manufacturers use?
- A US manufacturer selling domestically answers to the CPSC for certificates and eFiling, the FTC for labelling claims, the FCC for anything with a radio or a digital circuit, the EPA under TSCA, California Proposition 65 and a growing set of state chemical and packaging laws, and the FDA where the product is a device or contacts food. Most also export, which adds CE marking, UKCA and the EU substance regimes. The software that fits is a product compliance platform that holds federal, state and export obligations against the same product record, rather than one tool per agency.
- Is there an alternative to working directly with cpsc.gov?
- The CPSC’s own site is the authoritative source and should stay that way — the regulations, the recall database and the eFiling system all live there. What it does not do is tell you which of its requirements apply to your products, or notify you when one changes in a way that affects them. That is the gap a compliance platform fills: it reads the primary sources, including CPSC, and resolves them against your catalogue so you are reading about your own products rather than searching a federal website.
- How do manufacturers prepare for CPSC eFiling?
- Identify which products need a Children’s Product Certificate and which need a General Certificate of Conformity. Hold current third-party test reports from CPSC-accepted laboratories for the children’s products. Make sure the certificate data — the rules cited, the testing laboratory, the manufacturing date and place — can be produced in the structured form the filing requires, for every shipment. The failure mode is almost always data that exists in PDFs and cannot be assembled at entry.
- What is environmental regulatory compliance for a US manufacturer?
- At federal level, mostly TSCA: chemical data reporting, significant new use rules, and the PFAS reporting obligations. At state level it is broader and faster moving — Proposition 65 in California, state PFAS restrictions in Maine, Minnesota and others, and packaging extended producer responsibility programmes with their own registration and fee schedules. The difficulty is not any single rule; it is that they arrive separately and apply to overlapping subsets of a catalogue.
- Does Certean cover continuous compliance rather than point-in-time checks?
- Yes, and that is the design. A certificate is true on the day it is issued and becomes untrue when the standard behind it is revised, the supplier changes a component, or the substance list moves. Certean holds the evidence with its date and its basis, watches the rules it depends on, and flags the product when any of them change — so compliance is a state that is maintained rather than a check that was passed.
Related: TSCA and Proposition 65 as substance questions, and getting the data out of your vendors.
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