BedsPick mattresses recalled for failing mandatory fire safety standard

Every mattress sold in the United States has to survive a federal open-flame test, and about 818 BedsPick-brand queen mattresses from Regfear Ltd. did not, prompting a recall the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced September 17 over a risk of serious injury or death from fire. The 12-inch mattresses were sold exclusively on Amazon.com between February 2025 and May 2026 for $140 to $200. No incidents or injuries have been reported.

A specific heat-release limit, not a general warning

“Mandatory fire safety standard” refers to a precise federal rule: 16 CFR Part 1633, which requires every mattress sold in the United States to withstand two propane burners aimed directly at it during a 30-minute open-flame test. To pass, a mattress cannot release more than 200 kilowatts of heat at any single point in that test, and it cannot release more than 15 megajoules of total heat in the test’s first 10 minutes. Those thresholds are built around how quickly a mattress fire can flash into a room-engulfing blaze rather than staying small enough for occupants to escape.

The rule has applied to every mattress manufactured, imported or renovated for sale in the U.S. since it took effect in 2007, according to the standard’s text in the Code of Federal Regulations, meaning BedsPick’s queen mattresses were subject to the same open-flame test as mattresses sold by any national bedding brand. The CPSC recall notice does not disclose which of the two thresholds the BedsPick mattresses failed, or by how much, only that they violate the standard.

What “Prototype IDs” mean under the standard

The recalled mattresses carry prototype identifiers, “AMGSW066” or “AMGSW067,” printed on a label on the mattress’s side, along with model numbers SME004 or AMG005197_12_Q_GLT. That labeling is not incidental. Part 1633 compliance is built around prototype qualification: a manufacturer submits a representative mattress design as a “prototype,” has it tested against the heat-release limits, and is then expected to keep producing mattresses that match that qualified design, according to a CPSC compliance guide describing the prototype-qualification and quality-assurance process manufacturers must follow.

A recall framed around a violated standard, rather than a single defective part, suggests the failure traces to the mattress’s underlying construction or materials rather than a shipping or assembly error affecting only some units. Every BedsPick mattress built to the recalled prototype specification is covered, regardless of when within the 15-month sales window an individual unit shipped.

That distinction matters for how the recall is enforced. A recall over a cracked hinge or a loose screw can often be narrowed to a specific production run once the defective part is identified; a recall over a failed flammability prototype covers the entire line built to that design, since the foam, fabric or fire-barrier layer that caused the failure would be present in every unit manufactured under the same specification. CPSC’s notice does not say which layer of the mattress caused the BedsPick prototype to exceed the heat-release limits.

The second Amazon mattress recall this year

BedsPick is not the only Amazon-sold, Chinese-import mattress CPSC has pulled in 2026 for the identical violation. In August, the commission recalled about 774 Qabefy-brand twin mattresses, sold on Amazon between November 2025 and March 2026 for $120 to $140, after they were found to violate the same mandatory flammability standard. Both recalls describe the hazard in nearly identical language, and both involve direct-import bedding sold under a brand name most shoppers would not recognize outside its Amazon listing.

Regfear, the Raleigh, North Carolina-based company recalling the BedsPick mattresses, imports the product from a manufacturer in Indonesia, distinct from the Chinese import chain behind the Qabefy recall, indicating the pattern is not confined to one country of origin or one supply chain. What the two recalls share is a sales model: a small importer registers a brand name on Amazon, sources a mattress design from an overseas factory, and sells directly to consumers without the layers of domestic testing and retail vetting a mattress bought from a furniture showroom would typically pass through first.

A refund that starts with marking the mattress “Recalled”

Regfear’s remedy is a full refund, but only after the mattress is taken out of use in a specific, documented way. The CPSC notice instructs owners to write “Recalled” on the mattress’s top surface in permanent marker, photograph it, email the photo to [email protected], and then dispose of the mattress before a refund is issued. Regfear can also be reached by phone on weekdays for consumers working through the process.

The destroy-and-document requirement, identical in spirit to the process CPSC required of Qabefy buyers weeks earlier, exists because a flammability violation is not something a consumer can verify or repair at home; the only way to guarantee a failing mattress leaves circulation is to make sure no one can use it again, and owners can report any fire or other incident involving either mattress through CPSC’s own database at SaferProducts.gov. Whether the failure traces to the foam core, the outer fabric or the fire-resistant barrier layer between them is a detail Regfear and CPSC have both left unstated, leaving buyers of the recalled prototype to rely on the destroy-and-refund process rather than an explanation of what, specifically, went wrong.

This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.

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