11 June 2018, ASTM International’s committee on consumer products approved a new safety standard ASTM F3317-18 that provides requirements and test methods aimed at ensuring adequate performance of infant floor seats. This standard is intended to minimize injuries to children resulting from normal usage and foreseeable misuse or abuse of infant floor seats. An infant floor seat is a seat placed on the floor, which may include a tray, toy, or restraint system. The standard is not applicable to pillow infant positioners, which are usually made of fabric and filler materials for positioning or rest and do not contain restraint systems....

::-webkit-scrollbar{ display: none; } #divNeteaseBigAttach, #divNeteaseBigAttach_bak{display:none;} blockquote{display:none;} If you prefer not to receive this information, please click here to unsubscribe: Unsubscribe Me REACH EU Conduct Enforcement Pilot on Phthalates and Retardants ECHA’s Enforcement Forum has started work on a pilot project targeted 7 substances, including phthalates and retardants. The purpose is to verify the compliance with the notification and comm...

October 27, 2017, CPSC issued a ​final rule referring to Prohibition of Children's Toys and Child Care Articles Containing Specified Phthalates, which will revise the requirements in CPSIA. The Code of Federal Regulations title 16 is also amended by adding part 1307. From April 25, 2018(180 days after the release of the federal Gazette), any toys and children care products shall not be put into the market that contains 8 kinds of phthalate of more than 1000ppm....

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recalls 19 batches of products in September 2017. There are 13 batches of Chinese products, accounting for 68.42%....

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recalls 23 batches of products in August 2017. There are 14 batches of Chinese products, accounting for 60.87%....

August 18, 2017, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (S.D.Y.N) made a judgment on the US Consumer products safety Commission's (CPSC) dereliction of duty, which CPSC agreed to finalize a rule that could ban five phthalates in toys by October 18....

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recalls 19 batches of products in July 2017. There are 11 batches of Chinese products, accounting for 57.90%....

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recalls 19 batches of products in June 2017. There are 7 batches of Chinese products, accounting for 36.84%....

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recalls 30 batches of products in May 2017. There are 17 batches of Chinese products, accounting for 56.70%....

Accredited with CNAS and CMA, C&K Testing can conduct testing for toys & juvenile products, child care articles and fashion items, including: SVHC, EN71, formaldehyde content, CPSIA/HR4040, CP 65, ASTM, RoHS, DMF, phthalates, AZO Dye, PAHs,...

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recalls 21 batches of products in April 2017. There are 9 batches of Chinese products, accounting for 42.86%....

Recently, a stress-relieving artifact-Fidget Spinner (which is also named as Finger Spinner) - sweep the world. It is a small toy with a symmetric bearing system that can spin on one’s finger.But as the fidget spinner belongs to toys, it has to meet relevant technical regulations or standards before its domestic sale or export, or it may encounter disposal measures like punishing, withdrawing or even destroying....

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recalls 29 batches of products in January 2017. There are 7 batches of Chinese products, accounting for 24.14%....

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recalls 18 batches of products in February 2017. There are 11 batches of Chinese products, accounting for 61.11%. Based on our statistics, the products notified through the CPSC in February were as below: The above diagram show that household products are the most frequently notified in this month. Our analysis shows that fire (5 notifications) and fall (4 notifications) are types of risk that most frequently notified, accounting for...

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recalls 26 batches of products in January 2017. There are 14 batches of Chinese products, accounting for 53.85%....

On 2 February 2017, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) publishes a direct rule 82 FR 8989 in the Federal Register that it has recently allowed the update to ASTM F963, ASTM F963–16, Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Toy Safety (ASTM F963–16), to become the mandatory toy standard. The rule is effective on 30 April 2017, unless it receive significant adverse comment by 6 March 2017. According to the CPSC, the rule will become effective on April 30 and w...

US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) releases Toy-Related Death and Injuries (Calendar Year 2015), which presents the latest available statistics on deaths and emergency department-treated injuries associated with toys for the 2015 calendar year. Some children’s products are listed of high concern and it is of high likelihood of the highlights for CPSC supervision. In this report, the quality of toys on the market has overall improved especially after the applicabi...

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recalls 26 batches of products in December 2016. There are 16 batches of Chinese products, accounting for 61.54% . Based on our statistics, the Chinese products notified through the CPSC in December were as below: The above diagram show that household products are the most frequently notified in this month. Our analysis shows that fire (8 notifications) and injury (5 notifications) are types of risk that most frequently notified, acc...

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recalls 28 batches of products in October 2016. There are 16 batches of Chinese products, accounting for 57.14% . Based on our statistics, the Chinese products notified through the CPSC in November were as below: The above diagram show that household products are the most frequently notified in this month. Our analysis shows that fall (10 notifications) and injury (6 notifications) are types of risk that most frequently notified, acco...

From 2017 onwards, producers and suppliers of leather goods can also have their products certified to be tested for harmful substances by the International OEKO-TEX® Association. The basis for the certification is the new LEATHER STANDARD by OEKO-TEX®, which was launched during the annual meeting of the General Managers of the OEKO-TEX® institutes in Ostend, Belgium at the start of November. Formed in 1992 and celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2017, the OEKO-TE...