---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 C.F.R. § 1145.4"
title: "16"
number: "1145.4"
heading: "Consumer patching compounds containing respirable free-form asbestos; risk of cancer associated with inhalation of asbestos fibers."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/16/1145.4"
---

# §1145.4. Consumer patching compounds containing respirable free-form asbestos; risk of cancer associated with inhalation of asbestos fibers.

- (a) The Commission finds that it is in the public interest to regulate the risk of cancer associated with inhalation of asbestos fibers from consumer patching compounds containing respirable free-form asbestos under the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA) rather than under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act (FHSA) because of the desirability of avoiding possibly lengthy resource-consuming, inefficient rulemaking proceedings under the FHSA and because of the availability of civil penalties under the CPSA for knowing noncompliance.
- (b) Therefore, consumer patching compounds containing respirable free-form asbestos are regulated under CPSA.

## Notes

### Amendments

[42 FR 63354, Dec. 15, 1977]

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 2079(d).

### Amendments

[42 FR 63354, Dec. 15, 1977]