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Hong Kong Consults Over Revised Standards for Toys and Children’s Products

SafeGuardSToys and Juvenile ProductsDecember 12, 2024

SG 172/24

Hong Kong has initiated a consultation on the city’s proposal to amend several standards for toys and children’s products. Comments are being accepted until January 2, 2025.

Hong Kong’s Toys and Children’s Products Safety Ordinance (the Ordinance, Cap 424) stipulates that toys and children’s products must comply with all applicable requirements in any one of the safety standards specified in Schedule 1 (Toy Standards) or Schedule 2 (Schedule 2 Product Standards) to the Ordinance.

On December 2, 2024, Hong Kong launched a one-month consultation over its proposed updates to safety standards for toys and children’s products (with an Annex detailing the suggested changes) to adopt up-to-date and operative versions of the standards for toys and seven categories of Schedule 2 products.

Highlights of the proposed amendment to Schedules 1 and 2 of the Ordinance are summarized in Table 1.


Entry
Children’s Product
Current Standard
Proposed Standard
1Toys1
ASTM F963-17
ASTM F963-23
2Babies’ dummies2
ASTM F963-17
ASTM F963-23
3Baby walking frames2
BS EN 1273:2020
BS EN 1273:2020+A1:2023
4Bottle teats2
BS EN 14350:2020
BS EN 14350:2020+A1:2023
5Bunk beds for domestic use2
BS EN 747-1:2012+A1:2015
BS EN 747-1:2024
6Bunk beds for domestic use2
BS EN 747-2:2012+A1:2015
BS EN 747-2:2024
7Carry cots and similar handled products and stands2
BS EN 1466:2014
BS EN 1466:2023
8Children’s paints2
ASTM F963-17
ASTM F963-23
9Children’s paints2
AS/NZS ISO 8124.3:2021
AS/NZS ISO 8124.3:2021 (incorporating Amendment 1:2023)
10Wheeled child conveyances2
BS EN 1888-2:2018
BS EN 1888-2:2018+A1:2022

Table 1

1Scheule 1 to the Ordinance ‘Toy Standards’

2Schedule 2 to the Ordinance ‘Schedule 2 Product Standards’

A previous revision to the Ordinance was announced in February 2024, with the changes becoming effective in August 2024. (SafeGuardS 38/24)

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