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UK: Revised list of toy designated standards published

JUNE 2023 - TOYS AND CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS

On 22 June 2023, UK’s Department for Business and Trade announced a new consolidated list1 of designated standards for demonstrating compliance with the Toys (Safety) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1881)2, which came into force on the same day. This revision has updated the toy standard EN 71-13 for olfactory board games, cosmetic kits and gustative games to the latest version.

The proposal to amend the list of designated standards for Toys was published on 25 May. With the absence of objection to the designation, the references to designate the new standards have been released on day 29 (i.e., 22 June 2023).

While the proposal to amend the reference to electric toys safety standard EN 62115 is still pending, it was scheduled for publication on 14 March 2023 but was postponed, allowing the assessment of objections received on the designation.

The latest consolidated list of standards is summarized below.

Designated standard
 Standard title
EN 71-1:2014+A1:2018
 Safety of toys – Part 1: Mechanical and physical properties
EN 71-2:2020
 Safety of toys – Part 2: Flammability
EN 71-3:2019+A1:2021

Safety of toys – Part 3: Migration of certain elements

[See Notice 1]
EN 71-4:2020
 Safety of toys — Part 4: Experimental sets for chemistry and related activities
EN 71-5:2015
 Safety of toys — Part 5: Chemical toys (sets) other than experimental sets
EN 71-7:2014+A3:2020
 Safety of toys – Part 7: Finger paints - Requirements and test method
EN 71-8:2018
 Safety of toys – Part 8: Activity toys for domestic use
EN 71-12:2016

Safety of toys — Part 12: N-nitrosamines and N-nitrosatable substances

[See Notice 2]
EN 71-13:2021+A1:2022
 Safety of toys — Part 13: Olfactory board games, cosmetic kits and gustative games
EN 71-14:2018
 Safety of toys – Part 14: Trampolines for domestic use

EN 62115:2005 
EN 62115:2005/A2:2011
EN 62115:2005/A11:2012
EN 62115:2005/A12:2015
EN 62115:2005/A2:2011/AC:2011
EN62115:2005/A11:2012/AC:2013 

 Electric toys – Safety
[Notice 1]: The interpretation of clause 7 of the standard should be taken to require that test portions should not be made up of combined materials prior to the migration and analysis stages of the test.

[Notice 2]: The limit values in point a) of Table 2 of clause 4.2 of standard ‘EN 71-12:2016 Safety of toys — Part 12: N-nitrosamines and N-nitrosatable substances’ are lower than the limit values to be complied with set in point 8 of part III of Annex II to S.I. 2011/1881. In particular those values are as follows:

 

Substances
 EN 71-12:2016
 S.I. 2011/1881
N-nitrosamines
 0.01 mg/kg
 0.05 mg/kg
N-nitrosatable substances
 0.1 mg/kg 
  1 mg/kg
 

 

 

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