On November 19th, 2020, the National Standardization Administration issued Announcement No. 26 of 2020, in which the "Chinese version of REACH restricted substances"-GB/T 39498-2020 "Guidelines for the Control of the Use of Key Chemical Substances in Consumer Products" is officially released. The standard will be implemented on June 1st, 2021. Application Scope This standard applies to consumer products, including product components, parts, accessories, packaging and instruc...

2 May, 2018, Canada Gazette (Part II) release the new Children's Jewellery Regulations Children's Jewellery Regulations SOR/2018-82, which will come into force on 2 November, 2018, while the current Children's Jewelry Regulation SOR /2016-168 will be repealed. The main amendments of the new regulation SOR/2018-82 are as follows: 1. The Lead content of children's jewellery, when tested using good laboratory practices, must not be more than 90 mg/kg of lead....

September 6, 2017, The European Commission has notified the WTO of a draft G/TBT/N/EU/504, which intends to amending the migration limit for chromium VI in scraped -off toy materials....

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,...

On 27 April 2017, the Official Journal of the European Union published Regulation (EU) 2017/738 amending lead limit in the Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC. The Regulation takes into operation from 28 October 2018....

Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC is considered as the most stringent toy regulation in the globe requiring all toys to access the EU market should meet the requirements hereof. On 27 March 2017, EU ministers adopted the amendments to Annex II to toy safety directive to lower the lead limit....

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China Yiwu International Commodities Fair (Yiwu Fair) has been held since 1995. The event has been jointly hosted by the Ministry of Commerce, the People’s Government of Zhejiang Province and other relevant authorities. The Yiwu Fair in the name of “face to the world, serve the whole nation”, as highly internationalized and informative event with excellent services and security, has become one of the largest, most influential and most productive commodities fair in Chi...

On 18 August 2016, the European Union notified the World Trade Organisation (WTO) of a proposal on amending toy safety directive 2009/48/EC with regard to migration limits of lead in Annex II. The publication is an amendment to Notification G/TBT/N/EU/243 released by EU on 25 September 2014. The current limits of toy safety directive are based on the 2008 report of the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). The Scientific Committee for Health...

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,...

Recently BUND (Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland) randomly inspected daily toys and childcare articles intended for domestic sales and tested whether they contained plasticisers, PAHs and other hazardous substances. However, the r...

A batch of wood toys from a Ningbo toy company are notified by France at the beginning of August 2015 as the thickness of its plastic packaging was less than that in the requirements. Such noncompliance can easily cause suffocation hazard....

Helsinki, 15 September 2015: SEAC agreed its draft opinion on the French proposal to restrict the placing on the market of thermal paper containing Bisphenol A....

The 2015 China Kids Expo (CKE) will take place on October 20-22 in Shanghai New International Expo Center, to expand exhibition space to 140,000sqm held together with China Toy Expo and China Licensing Expo....

EU- EN 71-3:2013+A1 2014 will be harmonized under the Toys Safety Directive...

The EN71-4:2013 safety standard, which sets requirements for toy chemistry sets and similar toys, has been revised to bring it into line with the EU toys safety Directive and the Globally Harmonised System (GHS) of classification and labelli...