On 18 August 2016, the European Union notified the World Trade Organisation (WTO) of a proposal on amending toy safety directive 2009/48/EC with regard to migration limits of lead in Annex II. The publication is an amendment to Notification G/TBT/N/EU/243 released by EU on 25 September 2014. The current limits of toy safety directive are based on the 2008 report of the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). The Scientific Committee for Health ...

Taiwan’s Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BMSI) has announced to include Taiwan RoHS as an essential part of BSMI conformity assessment to apply for BSMI marking. Products falling under the scope shall bear the contents of restricted substances on the products, packaging, labels or instructions in accordance with relevant requirements for Section 5 of CNS 15663. On 6 June 2016, BMSI updated the Detailed List for Electronic Products subject to Inspection Log/ ...

On 8 Aug. 2016, Lishui Inspection and Quarantine Bureau (Zhejiang Province, China) destroyed a batch of toys (1,305 units, value: USD 2,082.8) imported from South Korea as they fail to meet the new Chinese standards for toy safety GB 6675-2014. These products are static plastic toys imported by a local foreign trade company from South Korea. Two of four series products still do not comply with new Chinese standards for toy safety GB 6675-2014 when the Authority requested rec ...

On 17 August 2016, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) proposed a rule on the Federal Register that four specified plastics with specified additives would be exempt from mandatory testing for phthalates. Public comments are open until 31 October 2016. Section 108 of the CPSIA prohibits children’s toys and child care articles that contain six specified phthalates in concentrations above 0.1 percent in “accessible plasticised component parts and other component p ...

On 8 Aug. 2016, Lishui Inspection and Quarantine Bureau (Zhejiang Province, China) destroyed a batch of toys (1,305 units, value: USD 2,082.8) imported from South Korea as they fail to meet the new Chinese standards for toy safety GB 6675-2014. These products are static plastic toys imported by a local foreign trade company from South Korea. Two of four series products still do not comply with new Chinese standards for toy safety GB 6675-2014 when the Authority requested rec ...

On 13 July 2016, Canada Gazette released a notification that Canada had made non-substantive administrative changes to 32 consumer products regulations that come under the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA). All the updates come into force since 22 June 2016. Effective in 2011, theCanada Consumer Product Safety Act(CCPSA) replaced Part I and Schedule I to theHazardous Products Act(HPA). Types of modifications that have been made to the covered consumer product regula ...

On 10 Aug. 2016, Product Quality Supervision Office under General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ) has released implementation rules on inspection of food contact mate ...

Giorgio Armani (Shanghai) Trading Co., Ltd. intends to recall some children’s wear under ARMANI JUNIOR by submission a recall scheme to General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of Ch ...

Effective 5 August 2016, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is adding 1-bromopropane (CAS No. 106-94-5) to the list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer for purposes of Proposition 65. ...

On 22 July, National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic has published Notification No. 10 of Year 2016, which specifies that five new food contact materials have passed the safety assessment review in accordance w ...