Shaanxi Exit-Entry Inspection and Quarantine Bureau (Shaanxi Province, China) officials found dangerous levels of heavy metals in a batch of fashion jewellery made of base metals from Japan, posing serious hazard. Brackets, necklaces, rings and earrings are involved (quantity: 4,216, value: 2,435,000 yens ). The sampling inspection of the said products shows five designs contain dangerous levels of lead. Alarmingly, the lead content even reaches 472 times as much as the limi ...

On 29 Aug. 2016, General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ) and Standardisation Administration of the People's Republic of China published Chinese National Standards Notification No. 14 of Year 2016 to approve 319 national standards, the majority of which targets at electrical and electronic products including guidance and test standards for hazardous substances. Extract of some standards: SN Standard No ...

On 6 Sept. 2016, six intentions for SVHCs are under public consultation period, which ends on 21 Oct. 2016. The details for the substances are as below: No. Name EC Number CAS Number Proposing authority Reason for proposing 1 4,4’-isopropylidenediphenol (bisphenol A) 201-245-8 80-05-7 France Toxic for reproduction (Article 57 c) 2 4-Heptylphenol, branched and linear [substances with a linear and/or branched alkyl chain with a carbon number of 7 covalently bound predominant ...

The European Commission validated 223 RASFF notifications this month, including 223 notifications on food, accounting for 90.65%; 15 notifications on feed, accounting for 6.10%; 8 notifications on food contact materials (FCMs), accounting for 3.25%. There are more details on FCM notifications as below: SN Date Notifying country Subject Action taken 1 03/08/2016 Slovenia migration of formaldehyde (15.6; 43.3; 51.2 mg/kg - ppm) from melamine bowls from China, via Slovakia with ...

General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ) validated notifications on 60 batches of imported industrial goods, which were found non-compliant during inspection and quarantine process at the entry ports of China. They have not been offered for sale on the China market yet and are returned or destroyed instead according to laws. Information for the notifications validated is as the following: No. Ref. Prod ...

In accordance with the General Product Safety Directive 2001/95/EC (GPSD) and Regulation 765/2008, in July 2016 the European Commission validated 132 notifications1 on dangerous products and transmitted them to the Member States (EU Member States and EEA-EFTA countries Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway). Most of these concerned products presenting serious risk: 110 notifications (83%). 5 notifications (4%) concerned products presenting less than serious risk and 17 notificati ...

The European Commission validated 248 RASFF notifications this month, including 218 notifications on food, accounting for 87.90%; 21 notifications on feed, accounting for 8.47%; 9 notifications on food contact materials (FCMs), accounting for 66.67%. There are more details on FCM notifications as below: SN Date Notifying country Subject Action taken 1 01/07/2016 Italy too high level of overall migration (1090 mg/kg - ppm) from steel pans from Hong Kong placed under customs s ...

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recalls 37 batches of products in July 2016. There are 23 batches of Chinese products, accounting for 62.16%, decreased by 7.07%. Based on our statistics, the Chinese products notified through the CPSC in July were as below: The above diagram show that sports and hobby facilities are the most frequently notified in July. Our analysis shows that fire, fire is types of risk that most frequently notified, accounting for 45.95%. Accompany ...

On 25 August 2016, EU released Regulation (EU) 2016/1416 to amend Regulation (EU) 10/2011 on plastic materials and articles that intended to come into direct contact with food as regards specific migration limits of heavy metals, union list of authorised substances, test methods for overall and specific migration. Since the Regulation's adoption, the European Food Safety Authority (‘the Authority’) has published further reports on particular substances that may be used i ...

On 17 Aug. 2016, General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ) released Notification 81 of Year 2016 to adjustExit-Entry Commodity Catalogue Implemented by Inspection Quarantine Authority (Year 2016), which requires 15 product categories including toys, child carriages and child car seats shall not be subject to entry-exit inspection & quarantine. The adjustment is effective on 1 Sept. 2016. C&K Tes ...