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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedSVIA mulling new safety standards: standards could include definitions for a new class of youth-sized quads.(ATV)
Powersports Business, April, 2007 by Kaiser, Tom
In what could be a taste of upcoming rules from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Specialty Vehicle Institute of America (SVIA) is poised to release new design, configuration and performance standards for its members in the ATV industry.
The standards, typically updated every five years, are designed to improve safety for ATV riders of all ages. Their creation, a year-long process, is a collaborative effort that combines recommendations and feedback from 27 participants across the industry, including a representative from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
While there has been collaboration between the SVIA and CPSC, which are both simultaneously developing ATV standards, the SVIA's new standards will preclude the CPSC's...
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