On August 10, 2018, the European Union (EU) published Commission Communication 2018/C 282/02 to announce the latest list of toy safety standards for presumption of conformity with Directive 2009/48/EC (Toy Safety Directive, TSD). In particular, except some standards that are being implemented, there are five new standards that published at 2018 and an important amendment to EN 71-7:2014 +A2:2018 which strengthens the concentration of climbazole allowed in finger paints.

Highlights of the five new standards that are harmonized for presumption of conformity with Directive 2009/48/EC are summarized in below Table.

Commission Communication 2018/C 282/02 in the Framework of the Implementation of Directive 2009/48/EC on the Safety of Toys

Note ：

1:a) The strengthened limits for lead migration under Directive (EU) 2017/738 will become effective on October 28, 2018;

 link：http://www.baclcorp.com.cn/list.asp?para=en_2_47_2

b) The strengthened limits for chromium (VI) migration in scraped-off toy materials  under Directive (EU) 2018/725 will become effective on November 18, 2019;

link：http://www.baclcorp.com.cn/show.asp?para=en_2_49_1750

2: Limit of the preservative climbazole (entry 22 in Table B.1 of Annex B to standard EN 71-7:2014+A2:2018) is revised from 0.5% to 0.2%

3: The superseded standard EN 71-7:2014 does not any more provide the presumption of conformity with the TSD for these two preservatives： a) Mixture of CMI(5-Chloro-2-methyl-isothiazol-3(2H)-one) and MIT(2-methylisothiazol-3(2H)-one) with magnesium chloride and magnesium nitrate; and b) MIT(entries 31 and 32 in the EN 71-7:2014), as the limit of both preservatives in aqueous toy materials has been strengthened by Directive (EU) 2015/2117 and became effective on 24 November 2017.

BACL Service：

BACL, with its headquarter in Silicon Valley, it is a global and comprehensive international third-party testing and certification body. Currently we have physical and chemical testing labs in the United States, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Xiamen and other places, and we have accredited the certifications by UKAS, CNAS, CPSC, CMA and other authorities.We offer a full range of testing services which cover footwear, toys, textile, clothing, leather, jewelry, groceries, food contact materials, cosmetics and electrical and electronic products, etc. We can help enterprises to complete the precise control of whole industry chain from raw materials to the finished products.