Airflow Mattress Stops manufacturing/importing Mattress NEWS from CPSC U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Office of Information and Public Affairs Washington, DC 20207 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 9, 1976 Release # 76-010 CPSC Provisionally Accepts Consent Agreement With Airflow Mattress, Inc., Brooklyn, New York WASHINGTON, D.C. (Feb. 9) -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission today announced that it has provisionally accepted a consent agreement prohibiting Airflow Mattress, Inc., Brooklyn, New York, a corporation, and Ralph Levine, individually and as an officer of the corporation, from manufacturing or importing products which fail to meet the requirements of the Flammable Fabrics Act. Specifically the agreement requires Airflow Mattress to conduct all flammability tests specified by the Mattress Standard (FF-4-72); to label each mattress manufactured with a permanent, accessible and legible label containing the appropriate production unit identification; and, to maintain all records required by the Standard and the Commission's regulations. Additionally as part of the provisional consent agreement, Airflow Mattress is to notify all of its customers who have purchased or to whom have been delivered mattresses manufactured by them between June 22, 1973, and December 22, 1973, that they may return these non-complying mattresses to the manufacturer for complete refund or replacement, at the option of the manufacturer, plus an allowance for reasonable costs (the means of transportation to be determined by the manufacturer). The Mattress Standard went into effect on June 22, 1973. However, a six-month "grace period" was provided during which manufacturers could attach warning labels to non-complying mattresses to indicate that they did not meet the Standard in lieu of compliance with the sampling and testing requirements. Since December 22, 1973, all newly manufactured mattresses must be produced in accordance with the sampling and testing requirements