China revised toys safety standard with stricter requirements

Nguồn: 中鼎检测 Ngày: 2013-07-05 Duyệt qua: 10561

In order to better protect children’s safety and health, National Toys Standard of China GB 6675 Toys Safety is revised and notified to WTO recently. New toys safety standards, referring to ISO 8124, are serialized with stricter safety requirements.

The new toys safety standards mainly include 4 parts, GB 6675.1 Basic Safety Requirements for Toys, GB 6675.2 Mechanical and Physical Properties, GB 6675.3 Flammability and GB 6675.4 Migration of Certain Elements, details of which are showed in Table 1.

These standards are under consultation, and plan to be effective in 6 months after the date of WTO approval.

Table 1 Chinese toys safety standards

Standard No.	Title	Description of content	Date reported to WTO
GB 6675.1	Safety of Toys - Part 1: Basic Safety Requirements for Toys	The basic safety requirements for toys, including mechanical, physical, flammable, chemical and electrical properties are specified in this part.	1/7/2013
GB 6675.2	Safety of Toys - Part 2: Mechanical and Physical Properties	The requirements for acceptable structural characteristics of toys, including shape, size, contour, spacing (e.g. rattles, small parts, sharp points and edges, and hinge etc.), as well as the requirements of performance parameters for certain categories of toy (e.g. maximum kinetic energy values for non-resilient-tipped projectiles and minimum tip angles for certain ride-on toys) are specified in this part.	28/6/2013
GB 6675.3	Safety of Toys - Part 3: Flammability	The categories of flammable materials that are prohibited in all toys and flammable requirements for certain toys which likely contact minor source of ignition are specified in this part. The test methods specified are applicable to test the flammability of toys or materials under particular test conditions. The test results thus obtained cannot be used for determining these toys or materials pose no potential fire hazard in contacting other sources of ignition.	28/6/2013
GB 6675.4	Safety of Toys Part 4: Migration of Certain Elements	The requirements of maximum acceptable levels, methods of sampling and procedure of testing sample preparation and extraction for migration of the elements antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury and selenium from toy materials and parts of toys are specified in this part.	1/7/2013