On April 2017, the European Commission Rapid Alert System (RAPEX) published a total of 77 recall notifications on children’s products, thereinto, 46 recalls are for toys, which has always been at the top of the most notified products. Also, there includes 21 recalls for children’s clothing, shoes and fashion items, 8 recalls for childcare articles and equipments, and 2 recalls for children cosmetics.

The potential danger of toys mainly came from the restricted chemicals, small parts which may lead to chocking, and noise that may create damages to hearing. Besides, the strangulation and entrapment danger always presented on long cords of children’s clothing and frame of children’s beds or playpens, the children’s cosmetics is dangerous due to the contents of restricted hazardous chemicals .The 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 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.