In July 2017, there are total 52 recall cases on toys in the major global markets. Thereinto, 35 recalls were published at the European Commission Rapid Alert System (RAPEX), which always release the most notifications on recalled toys. Also, there included 9 recalls in Canada, 5 recalls in Australia and 3 recalls in America separately.

The potential danger of these recalled toys mainly came from the restricted chemicals that causing possible damage to the reproductive system and small parts which may lead to choking. Besides, the risk of burning always presented on children’s costumes and strangulation hazard always presented on strings or elastics. The map as below:

BACL list some typical recalls for your reference. Details as below:

BACL Testing：

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.