A amending to Directive 2009/48/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the safety of toys, as regards lead is now form an official document. The different limit of lead before and after the revision are show on the table:

On 22 June 2004, the Scientific Committee on Toxicity, Ecotoxicity and Environment recommended that 10 % of the maximum tolerable intake of lead should be allowed as the maximum contribution from toys. On 1 July 2010, the Scientific Committee for Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER) concurred with the approach that the uptake of lead from toys should not exceed 10 % of a toxicology-based reference value.

Furthermore, since lead is considered particularly toxic, its limits in Directive 2009/48/EC were set at half the level considered safe according to the criteria of the relevant Scientific Committee, in order to ensure that only traces of lead that are compatible with good manufacturing practice should be present. Accordingly, the limits for lead were set in that Directive at 5 % of the tolerable daily intake, determined as the migration of lead from toys. That is why to reduce the limit of lead in toy in very low level. So the directive 2009/48/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

The member states shall apply those provisions from 28 October 2018.

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