From someone that makes a living importing things from china .. never trust a sticker (or any other certification) coming out of there without verification. Products aren't the only thing thats faked. I've seen some pretty amazingly well done certification forgeries. Heck there are places in the Canton Fair
http://www.cantonfair.org.cn/en/index.aspx that will sell you whole compliance testing (on paper) for pretty much anything you want. I made a joke once about getting some Level VI ballistic penetration certs for the spandex stuff we sell and seeing if we could market it to certain politicians and regimes. Unfortunately, if effective, such a market would only be short duration, not much reoccurring sales.
A good sign of a fake compliance situation is when you find a other-country-sticker in the box rather than your own. Can't get customs to pull your stuff for that, they won't care.
IMO (and I've looked) EN1078 is better than CSPC/Snell Europeans take this stuff seriously. Thats why I'm buying helmets in the EU now and not the US.
Quote from jayg on Jul 31st, 2017, 9:53pm:Quote from MrWizard on Jul 31st, 2017, 8:18pm: The helmet that failed two portions of the EN 1078 test conducted in the video was a counterfeit GIRO helmet.
The BASECAMP helmets have stickers inside them indicating they comply with DIN EN 1078, which is the European standard for bike helmets. After a brief search, it appears to me that bike helmets imported into the U.S. after 1999 are required to comply with Consumer Product Safety Commission Standard 16 C.F.R., Part 1203. My GIRO helmets have stickers in them indicating they comply with the CPSC standard. Haven't made a comparison of the two standards, so don't know which one is the most stringent.
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