In 2016, RAPEX published 540 notifications on toy,  The category ‘Toys’ has always been at the top of the most notified products, together with ‘Childcare articles’ and ‘’Clothing, textiles and fashion items’ (most of the notifications in this last category relate to children’s clothing).

The most common risks linked to children’s toys are ‘Choking’ and ‘Chemical’ risks in 2016, map as below:

RAPEX: abbreviation of The Rapid Alert System which enables quick exchange of information between European countries and the European Commission about dangerous non-food products posing a risk to health and safety of consumers.

The RAPEX system relies on the close cooperation between the European Commission and the member state regulators, put forward the preventive or restrictive measures on consumer products which may bring serious risk to the health and safety, Such measures can be implemented by regulatory agencies (such as Ban on the marketing ), and / or by the operator (such as withdrawal or recall from consumers from the market).

BACL Note: small parts, strangulation, chemical such as phthalate, AZO, SCCPs, PAHs, total lead, cadmium are all high risk items of children product. To be safe, establish an integrated product safety traceability mechanism, and set up a quality and safety critical control point in the product design, manufacturing process control, final testing and other aspects. To form a security management system of whole process from headstream of production to the point of sale terminal, thus to make sure product safe, effective and stable.

BACL Service:

BACL, headquartered in the United Sates, is a global comprehensive international third-party testing and certification service organization. With knowledge of the laws and regulations of various market, BACL can not only offer testing and certification services for finished products including textile and garment, electrical and electronic product, food contact material, shoes and toys, but also help companies to execute quality control over the whole industry chain from raw material to finished products。