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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 November 22, 2023.
The UK’s Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has announced Notice of Publication 0093/23: Designated Standards - Toys Safety (publishing.service.gov.uk) to revise the list of designated toy safety standards for demonstrating compliance with Toys (Safety) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1811) in relation to Great Britain (GB – England, Wales and Scotland).
The notice amends the toy electrical standard EN 62115 and provides a complete list of references for toy safety standards that are designated under S.I. 2011/1881, fully aligning the list of designated standards for GB with EU harmonized toy standards.
However, some additional voluntary measures have been suggested for toys with button and coin type of batteries destined for GB markets. Please see Table 1.
The complete list of standards is summarized in Table 1.
THE DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS AND TRADE
PART 2 OF ANNEX I TO NOTICE OF PUBLICATION 0093/23 OF NOVEMBER 22, 2023, 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+A1:2021 | 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 71-12:2016 | N-Nitrosamines and N-nitrosatable substances |
| 9 | EN 71-13:2021+A1:2022 | Olfactory board games, cosmetic kits and gustative games |
| 10 | EN 71-14:2018 | Trampolines for domestic use |
| 11 | EN IEC 62115:2020 Electric toys — Safety EN IEC 62115:2020/A11:2020 Informative Note: The presumption of conformity with the essential requirements of the Toys (Safety) Regulations, as provided for in those Regulations, applies through application of the above standard. The content of this note has been brought to the attention of the relevant standard committee in respect to toys containing or supplied with button and coin type batteries to consider the additional measures below for the next revision of the standard In the meantime, users of EN 62115 are encouraged to follow the additional voluntary measures below for any toys that contain a coin or button battery: (a) For button and coin batteries - appropriate warnings on the packaging of toys, indicating the presence and hazards associated with such batteries, as well as actions to be taken in the event of a battery being swallowed or inserted into the body. As well as consideration for an appropriate graphical symbol to accompany these warnings (b) Where practical and appropriate placing a pictorial warning and/or hazard marking on toys containing a button or coin battery (c) Provision of information in the toy’s accompanying instruction manual (or on its packaging) of the symptoms of button or coin battery ingestion and the need to seek immediate medical attention in the event of such a suspected ingestion (d) Where coin or button batteries are supplied with a toy, and these are not pre-installed in the battery compartment; these batteries should be supplied in child resistant packaging and appropriate warning markings placed on this packaging (e) Using coin and button batteries that are durably and indelibly marked with a pictorial warning indicating they should be kept out of reach of children or vulnerable persons | Electric toys |
Table 1
The update came into effect on November 22, 2023.
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