Why Join AFSL?

If you are in the business of importing and selling consumer fireworks, you are busy. You spend months sourcing products and managing the logistics to get them delivered where and when you want them, and you don’t have time to deal with having your containers stopped at the port of entry, inspected by CPSC, and determined to be noncompliant.

Let the American Fireworks Standards Laboratory (AFSL) help you to rest easier about the outcome of any inspection by CPSC. Since 1995, AFSL has tested more than 170 million cases of consumer fireworks for its members and has prevented over 12 million cases of non-compliant and potentially unsafe fireworks from making their way into the U.S. market. AFSL provides a cost-effective, independent third-party testing and certification service to manufacturers and U.S. importers to ensure that their products comply with all federal requirements for consumer fireworks. Through the development of a set of voluntary standards, along with rigorous testing to those standards, AFSL helps to ensure compliance with U.S. mandatory regulations for consumer fireworks established by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). AFSL is a unique entity in the field of consumer product safety and has been described repeatedly by U.S regulatory agencies as a role model for how other industries should work with manufacturers to ensure that products shipped to the U.S. comply with both mandatory and voluntary standards.