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iwillhtfu wrote: »

I would assume it would have to be if sold in the EU. It is classed as a safety device after all. If not planet X are leaving themselves wide open to claims and I can't see that happening.

4. Died, was resurrected as ASTM: ANSI

In 1984 the American National Standards Institute adopted a bicycle helmet standard. We were members of ANSI's Z90.4 committee then, and helped to get the standard adopted over the objections of manufacturers whose products would not meet it. Since that time the ANSI committee has been inactive. The standard lapsed, and was declared obsolete by ANSI as of February, 1995.
In a rare meeting later in 1995 the committee voted to adopt the ASTM bicycle helmet standard as the ANSI standard. ANSI took eight years to so that, but at last it became effective in 2003. The 1984 version of the ANSI standard was unfortunately cited in many state and local laws, and now some of those laws are automatically updated when the ASTM standard is improved, unless they have cited the specific date of the ANSI standard. ANSI remains a familiar set of initials. You could still see an ANSI sticker in a helmet, but the best advice is to ignore it as historical artifact and look for CPSC or Snell instead. ANSI's last function was as the U.S. Secretariat for ISO bicycle helmet activities. In mid-1996 the ANSI Z90 Committee members voted to shift the Secretariat for ISO activities from Z90 to the ASTM F08 Committee. In 1999 F08 gave up the Secretariat to an equestrian group, since there was no indication of any interest in harmonizing international bicycle helmet standards. The Z90 Committee has now been disbanded.