In the future, Turkey wants to ensure better compliance with import regulations for imported toys and a variety of consumer goods. That’s way, as part of TAREKS, its risk-based trade control system), it published two notifications on December 31, 2022 that took effect the next day. The first notification (only…
About 20% of slime toys contain migration levels of boron that are too high. That’s the finding of a study made with a project named “Coordinated Activities on the Safety of Products” (CASP). Scientists analyzed a total of 195 samples. In 39 of the samples, they found values higher than…
The ministers of eleven member states of the EU (Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden) are urging stricter threshold values for hazardous chemicals in toys. In a joint letter to Elżbieta Bieńkowska, the Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship, and SMEs, the ministers pointed out various delays and appealed to the EU to…
Toys continue to be contaminated with hazardous chemicals. According to a current EU report, Safety Gate: just a click to keep away from dangerous products, toys are one of the top three product categories most frequently reported to the early warning system formerly known as RAPEX, which stands for rapid…
ASTM International , an U.S. standards organization, wants to revise its specification for toy safety (ASTM F963) and will soon submit its draft to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) for final review. If the CPSC has no objections, the new specification will go into effect in 180 days….
