SG 109.22
The United Kingdom (UK) has issued the latest list of toy safety standards for presumption of conformity with its toy legislation in relation to Great Britain. These became effective on September 1, 2022.
On September 1, 2022, the UK’s Office for Product Safety and Standards and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) announced Notice of Publication 063/22 (the Notice) to revise the list of designated toy safety standards for demonstrating compliance with the Toys (Safety) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1811) in relation to Great Britain (GB – England, Wales and Scotland).
The Notice amends six standards (EN 71 Parts 2 to 4, 7, 12 and 13, SafeGuardS 096/22) and also provides the complete list of references of toy safety standards that are designated for S.I. 2011/1881 as on September 1, 2022. With the exception of entry 11 for electric toys, it is interesting to note that the referenced toy safety standards are consistent with those in the European Union (SafeGuardS 153/21).
The complete list of standards is summarized in Table 1.
The Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
Part 2 of Annex I to Notice of Publication 0063/22 of September 1, 2022, of References to Standards for Toys in Support of the Toys (Safety) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1881) (per text in the Notice)
| Entry | Standard | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | EN 71-1:2014+A1:2018 | Mechanical and physical properties |
| 2 | EN 71-2:2020 | Flammability |
| 3 | EN 71-3:2019+A1:20211 | Migration of certain elements |
| 4 | EN 71-4:2020 | Experimental sets for chemistry and related activities |
| 5 | EN 71-5:2015 | Chemical toys (sets) other than experimental sets |
| 6 | EN 71-7:2014+A3:2020 | Finger paints |
| 7 | EN 71-8:2018 | Activity toys for domestic use |
| 8 | EN 71-12:20162 | N-Nitrosamines and N-nitrosatable substances |
| 9 | EN 71-13:2021 | Olfactory board games, cosmetic kits and gustative games |
| 10 | EN 71-14:2018 | Trampolines for domestic use |
| 11 | EN 62115:2005 EN 62115:2005/A2:2011 EN 62115:2005/A11:2012 EN 62115:2005/A12:2015 EN 62115:2005/A2:2011/AC:2011 EN 62115:2005/A11:2012/AC:2013 | Electric toys |
Effective date: September 1, 2022
1Interpretation of Clause 7 of the standard should be taken to require that test portions should not be made up of combined materials prior to the migration and analysis stages of the test
2In point 8 of Part 3 of Schedule 2 to S.I. 2011/1881, the limit values are 0.05 mg/kg for N-nitrosamines and 1 mg/kg for N-nitrosatable substances
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