These articles provide a non-exhaustive overview of the latest developments related to toy safety requirements and the standards that are needed to ensure compliance with the Toy Safety Directive. As toy safety requirements are subject to changes, we recommend that you consult the latest available information.
- “Safety Assessment” of Toys – a Requirement? (31.10.2017)
- Toy or not (12.10.2017)
- New migration limits for lead in toys and other changes (05.09.2017)
- Changes expected in the EN standards for toy safety (14.03.2017)
- New initiatives in the ISO standarisation (14.11.2016)
- Stricter limit in lead for lead in toys? (13.09.2016)
- New limit for lead in consumer products (13.09.2016)
- Changes in the chemical requirements for toys (22.07.2016)
- Age Classification of Toys (24.06.2016)
- What are accredited test laboratories? (15.02.2016)
- What is a Notified Body Under the TSD? (27.10.2015)
- Germany not permitted to deviate from the TSD (09.09.2015)
- Standards and presumption of conformity with legal requirements (08.06.2015)
- Nickel: triply regulated in toys (18.03.2015)
- The latest developments in international toy safety standards (09.12.2014)
- Additions and changes to the Toy Safety Directive (20.03.2014)
- Final vote on new changes to EN 71-1 (29.10.2013)
- Changes to EN 71-1 for sound producing toys (09.09.2013)
- What is the ’candidate list’ (21.05.2013)
- New chemical requirements for toys enter force this July (28.03.2013)
- International toy safety standards expected (04.12.2012)
- Update on the development of EN71 (26.09.2012)
- What obligations do distributors have under the Toy Safety Directive (16.05.2012)
- Safety of toys – many rules to be aware of (07.02.2012)
- Is it a toy? (21.11.2011)
- EN 71-1:2011: What is new? (08.07.2011)
- Warnings in EN 71-1:2011 (06.06.2011)
- Labelling and documentation in the new Toy Safety Directive (06.06.2011)
- Update of the toy safety standards for flammability and activity toys (25.05.2011)
- Safety of toys: Chemical safety assessment (06.05.2011)
- Intensive international standardisation work for toy safety (18.04.2011)
- Small ball-shaped toys and other small parts (18.04.2011)
- Update of the standard for electric toys (01.04.2011)
- An introduction to safety assessment of the mechanical, physical, flammability and electrical properties of toys as well as hygiene and radioactivity properties (01.04.2011)