The global toy product compliance requirements alarm again
Since July 20, 2011, the new eu toy safety directive 2009/48 / EC officially replaced the old toy safety directive 88/378 / EEC, of which chemical requirements will be implemented on July 20, 2013. With its effective date draws near, EN71-13 official version of his 19 chemical element migration quantity of test standard was released recently.
Compared with the old version, the new toy safety directive 2009/48 / EC there are two major changes. First, according to the extent to which children can absorb, toy materials were divided into the following three categories: dry, brittle, powdered or soft materials; Liquid or viscous materials; Material can be scraped off. Secondly, based on the toxicity of each element in the toy safety, according to the different methods of materials, and its use for the migration amount (mg/kg) of each element set different threshold. It is important to note that each element migration quantity limit only applies to intention will be a toy in your mouth can contact parts, cosmetics, toys and writing tools (such as pen, crayons) such is likely to result in all ages swallow behavior in their children's toy materials.
Stricter requirements of set limit to, especially for the first and the second type of toy materials. EN71 - surely, 13 new standards of barium element migration quantity limit and even much lower than directive requires. (the next step is expected to lead to do a similar adjustment.)
"A challenge"
How to purchase the right raw materials
Based on the above concerns, for the manufacturers, how to ensure that raw materials procurement to the right is the real challenge facing manufacturers, given the lower limit of the lead requirements have been proposed, for containing raw materials (such as clay) due to the nature of the toy so it is urgent to find suitable alternative materials. Compared with the old version EN71-3,, much attention has been paid to new elements also originally conform to the requirements of raw materials under the new requirements may result in excessive situation, especially for classified as the first and the second category of art craft materials, such as the toner contains aluminum silver paint.
Challenge 2 】 【
To adapt to the new test methods and standards
Cr (IV) the dispute before released new instructions have been fired. First, the determination of cr (IV) migration amount needed in chromium element migration quantity adding a confirmation on the basis of the analysis of the experiment, used for identification of chromium (III) and chromium (VI) two valence state. Although at present the analysis method is feasible, but simply to be classified as the third kind of the material. The CEN has not been announced for category 1 and category 2 material analysis method, mainly because it is extremely hard threshold. Nonetheless, many laboratories and institutions remain heavily in research and development of internal analysis method. For this reason, the standard advice some alternative ways to reflect the compliance of such materials, such as toy materials safety assessment. For the third type of toy materials confirmation analysis is actually not necessary, and analysis is more expensive, but not confirm experiments is the premise of chromium element chromium (III) and chromium (VI) a mixture of migration amount must be less than the limit value of chromium (VI) in order to ensure the validity of the results. The determination of organic tin migration amount and the above cr (IV) test, so a similar method can also be used for organic tin migration quantity of conformity certificate. Through the determination of tin element migration quantity and compared with organotin limit to do, this may infer organic tin migration quantity of conformity.
In recent years, the toy industry vibration within the larger case is a technical barriers to trade in 2008, the U.S. signed by the consumer product safety improvement act (CPSIA), the act of lead in children's products to the total demand reached unprecedented low limit, the request directly lead to many orders can't meet the requirements and be refunded, or cancel the order directly, and then lead to the collapse of the small factory. The new toy safety directive effect will is another challenge to China's toy industry, the world's largest toy production, processing and exporting countries, toys and toy safety quality directly about the health and safety of consumers, not only about the pollution of the environment and sustainable development. With experience, 19 chemical element migration requirements already caused the attention of manufacturers, producers and consumers, with the arrival of July 20, toy product compliance requirements alarm again.
