Safety of toys is cirtically important for consumers and our society, especially for children and juveniles. With social progress, industrial development and cultural change, it takes a huge change for toy design and production. All kinds of toy regulations and standards also upgrate and develop. With frequent toy safety issues in recent years, every country has established more and more strict regulations and standards for toys.

Toy Test Standard for Various Country

ISO International: ISO 8124

China:GB 6675 GB19865

EU: EN71, EN 62115, EMC

USA:CPSC, ASTM F963, FDA

Canada: CHPA

UK:BS EN71

Germany: DIN EN 71, DIN EN 62115, LFGB

France: NF EN 71, NF EN 62115

Australia: AS/NZS ISO 8124, EMC

New Zealand:NZS 5822, AS/NZS ISO 8124

Japan: ST 2002

INTERNATIONAL TOYS SAFETY STANDARDS REQUIREMENTS

With rich experience, UTS can provide "one-stop" testing service for all kinds of toys and juvenile products, including functional evaluation, safety performance testing and chemical safety testing and also technical consulting service.

Toys-Comprehensive Testing Service

Main Testing Equipments

Heavy Metal in Toys

There exsit various types of heavy metal elements among all kinds of raw materials used for toys, juvenile products and children's jewelry. The heavy metal elements accumulate and once it goes beyond the limit, they will cause damage to human body, especially children. To ensure product safety, maintain human healty and reduce heavy metal pollution, each country has issued related regulations and standards, limiting heavy metal element content within a safety range.

Heavy metal element content for different countries: (Unit:ppm)

 Sol.= Soluble content, Tl.= Total content, ND=No detected, ppm=percent per million

Lead Content

For recent year, there are always lead content exceeding cases among CPSC's callback, including some " made in China". Lead exsits widely in toy materials. Excessive lead will have a significant impact to human body and enviroment. Lead is a type of heavy metal poisoned to children, and will lead to decreasing children's learning ability, impairing hearing and brain and even fatal damage.

Unit: ppm

l  According to USA 2008 CPSIA, from Aug 14, 2009 to Aug 14, 2011, total lead content limit is 300 ppm; from Aug 14, 2011, total lead content limit is 100 ppm.

Phthalate, abbreviation PAE, is the general name of ester forming from Phthalic acid, and is a kind of chemicals with softening function. For toys and juvenile products, it is mainly used with plastics to make hard plastics soft, used as plasticizer. But its irrational utilization will affect hormonal activity and cause child precocious puberty; it will damage liver, kidney, lung, deleloping testicle and man's fertility.

A updated EU directive 2005/84/EC against phthalate took effect since Jan 16,2007. This directive is applicable for all toys and juvenile products made from plastics. USA 2008 CPSIA also stipulates that from Feb 10, 2009, children's toys and juvenile products with phthalate are forbidden to be sold. In August, 2011, restricted phthalate are increased from 2 types to 4 types in Japanese Toy Safety Standard (STT-2002) and all plastic materials are under control. From Sep 6, 2011, contained PVC, PU and plastic mateials for restricted toys must meet the new phthalate requirements. Though in China there is no specific legal provisions for phthalate among juvenile products, it has stepped into a stage of controlling gradually. GB 24613 also stipulates the limit of phthalate for toy painting.

Limit of phthalate for EU, China and Japan

USA 2008 CPSIA stipulation for phthalate

EN71-9/-10/-11 Organic Compounds Contained in Toys

EN71-9 is new added standards for current EN 71, mainly against possible harm caused by organic compounds contained in toys, including carcinogenesis, organism mutation and impairment of reproductive system. To reduce harm furthest, EU set up this new standard in oder to limit use of harmful organic compounds in toys and toy mateirals.

EN 71-9:2005 organic compound standard

EN 71-10:2005 organic compound sample prepration and extraction

EN 71-11:2005 organic compound analytical method

EN 71-9 established standards for content and migration of harmful organic compound contained in toys and toy materials. These standards are divided according below contact channels.

*lap*swallow*skin contact*eye contact*inhale

Under normal and predictable use condition, attention should be paid to children's action, design features and use functions of toys

EN 71-9:2005 organic compound standard

These standards only cover cetain materials used on below types of toys and toy parts. For example,

*toys designed for children under 3, can be put into mouth, such as teethers

*toys designed for children under 3 and contact toy parts

* parts of mouth actuated toys

*solid toy materials can be sractched