[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR10.9]

[Page 125-126]
 
                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
PART 10--PROCEDURES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF VOLUNTARY PRODUCT STANDARDS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 10.9  Publication of a standard.

    A Voluntary Product Standard published by the department under these 
procedures shall be assigned an appropriate number for purposes of 
identification and reference. Public notice shall be given regarding the 
publication and identification of the standard. A voluntary standard by 
itself has no

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mandatory or legally binding effect. Any person may choose to use or not 
to use such a standard. Appropriate reference in contracts, codes, 
advertising, invoices, announcements, product labels, and the like may 
be made to a Voluntary Product Standard published under these 
procedures. Such reference shall be in accordance with such policies as 
the Department may establish, but no product may be advertised or 
represented in any manner which would imply or tend to imply approval or 
endorsement of that product by the Department or by the Federal 
Government.