Export toy companies how to deal with the new European Toy Safety Directive

Now the European Toy Safety Directive has entered into force, so that the already affected by financial crises toy companies feel worse. European Parliament The revision of the Toy Safety Directive has two reasons: First, the original instruction has been difficult to ensure the safety of children's toys; Second, in the toy market regulatory loopholes, the need for new management rules. While improving toy safety requirements, but as long as the enterprises according to the characteristics of their products carefully from design, process control and quality management, to seize the four priorities, the problem is not difficult to resolve.
First, focus on chemical safety
Toy safety is usually broken down into materials, structure, identity and function requirements, in order to ensure the safety of children's toys, the new directive will clarify the chemical safety restrictions and prohibitions of toxic and hazardous chemicals from eight kinds to 85 kinds of , for the first time prohibit the use of carcinogenic, mutagenic substances affect fertility and expressly toy products should meet the REACH directive, including the EU, including through the use of chemicals regulatory requirements. Non-EU REACH directive requires member companies of products exported to the EU are specified range (such as production color brushes, plasticine, children's cosmetics, scented toys and other products of the enterprise) to be registered. Obviously, the chemical safety is the future focus of European and American toy safety, but companies can calmly deal with, because not only REACH directive requires a relatively long transition period, the new directive on chemical safety will also have four-year transition period. Chemical Safety is a material safety, different toys to use different materials, control methods are not the same, business as long as the materials used to understand the nature of their products, which materials you want to control which aspects of the test, what materials should be registered, and definitive agreements with suppliers requirements traceability data stored. There are plans to do it, the problem can be satisfactorily resolved.
Second, focus on the structural safety of toys
New rules to strengthen the prevention of child suffocation caused by swallowing small parts toys and toys into the mouth causing choking requirements. According to European and American children's toys accident statistics, suffocation and choking accidents always been among the first in the Chinese toys were recalled's case, this is the primary reason. Toy widgets problem is not as simple as people usually think. Toy divided into two parts: one is the original state, one is generated through the abuse of separation, children under three years of age they will cause damage, so you must have a warning note. To actually deal with the problem toys small parts is not easy, it relates to the product is suitable for the age of judgment, involving product design and material selection. Currently toy exports a considerable part of the use of the material strength is not enough, in abuse trial fragmentation, which is caused by small parts toy is one cause of the problem. Accordance with European standards, plastic bubble toy small parts are also included in the assessment requirements, but many products reach of children in plastic foam with a small force can tear. Problems caused by choking on toys, but also with the structural design of products, which the European toy safety standards have specialized limits (eg for pre-school dolls, hemispherical toys). To ensure the structural safety of children's toys, requires companies to be taken seriously.
Third, focus on product identification toys
Enterprises should pay attention to amusement park equipment logo safeguard their own interests, to protect the role of toy safety. New rules further highlighted the toy warning label requirements. Just a little note that you will find some of the famous brands of toys are dense packaging product identification, while some companies do not attach importance to our product identification, because their only processed by the importer is responsible for product identification, the problem is more difficult now solution. In general, a well-known brand processing enterprises in the product identification problem is not a problem, but for a number of small importers do processing enterprises should still understand toys label warnings knowledge, safeguard their own interests.
Fourth, focus on product conformity assessment
Companies should follow the requirements of the EU Toy Safety Directive good product conformity assessment. About product conformity assessment rules do not change, most toys independently verified by the manufacturer and affix the CE mark, but must submit verification documents such as test reports, only a few can not be coordinated by the relevant standard (eg EN71) covers toys, namely very special toys to the institution designated by the EU type test, and issue a type-examination certificate. But the EU member states will strengthen market supervision, the Member States must ensure that market surveillance inside and outside the EU to fully check to ensure that dangerous toys are immediately banned.
For the new toy safety directive, we remind toy companies to actively prepared to deal with measures to establish a sense of quality, so that toys can be smooth, safe, and high quality to the world, so as to face in a variety of technical barriers calmly and avoid losses. Our company will also provide technical support to help solve problems toy companies, so as to achieve a win-win.