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In the "Guide to Exporting Children's Toys (EU)", I believe you have a comprehensive understanding of the major updates in the EU market. Today, let's talk about the United States.
The United States has always been the largest market for Chinese toy exports. In 2016, China ’s toy exports amounted to US $ 18.393 billion, of which US $ 5.881 billion was exported to the United States, and exports of children ’s toys to the United States accounted for 31.97% of China ’s toy exports. Increasingly strict toy safety requirements in the United States have far-reaching effects on the design, production and management of toy export enterprises, leading to increasing production and testing costs for enterprises.
Recently, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) released the "Annual Report on Toy-related Child Injuries and Deaths." The report made statistics on all kinds of toy-related child safety accidents in the United States last year, and conducted detailed analysis on toys with higher risks. The safety annual report is an important basis for CPSC to carry out the supervision of children's products. The high-risk toy standards and supervision listed in the report may continue to be tightened.
Overall, the requirements of the US toy regulations are becoming stricter. The revision of ASTM F963-2016 was notified to the CPSC in November 2016 and came into effect at the end of April 2017, which is a mandatory safety requirement regulated by the United States for toys. If you do n’t know much about this regulation, this interpretation should not be missed.
1. Acoustics:
The test content changes are in accordance with EN 71;
No longer distinguish between continuous sounds / pulse sounds; more in line with current EN 71-1: 2011 + A3: 2014;
Updated the definition of push / pull toys; the measurement speed becomes 1 meter / second;
Amended the restrictions on near-ear toys in the 2011 revision;
Correct the definition of cycle testing;
The measurement distance and microphone height are in accordance with EN 71-1: 2014.
2. Toys / batteries powered by batteries:
Add new definitions for batteries and battery packs;
For button batteries nominally 1.5 volts or higher, the standard requires manufacturers to add a new warning label to remind consumers of the dangers of these batteries;
Added temperature and current limit requirements for lithium-ion batteries and nickel-metal hydride batteries used in toys;
Both the battery and the charger require protection circuits to prevent short circuits, overcharging, and overheating, which can cause the battery to discharge, catch fire, or explode;
Four new test methods are added for toys containing rechargeable batteries and battery packs, including battery overcharge test, repeated overcharge test, single fault charge test, and short circuit protection test.
You can prove compliance with the reference battery standard by submitting appropriate documents.
3. Expansion materials:
Added requirements for materials and toys that may expand after swallowing;
Describes test methods and passing standards;
List the products that can cause problems and determine whether they will cause accidents;
The widget test is only applicable when the sample is received.
4. Heavy metal elements:
The 2011 edition adds standard requirements for heavy metals in substrates;
The 2016 edition clarified some earlier and consistent interpretation requirements (for example, to clarify changes to textiles and stickers);
You can choose to use HD-XRF technology as an alternative test method for screening tests (for homogeneous polymers).
5. Impact hazard:
Provide clarification on impact hazard requirements and supplementary guidance
6. Magnet
More in line with ISO and EN requirements;
Conduct immersion test and pressure test;
Modify Gauss meter tolerance specifications.
7. Microbiological safety:
Add alternative CTFA test method to supplement the current USP method;
Increase the requirements for bird feathers;
Clarify which products need to be challenge tested;
Define specific pass / fail criteria for cleanliness and challenge test tests to help explain the results consistently;
Specify the minimum number of samples.
8. Ejection toys:
More in line with ISO 8124 and some EN 71 requirements;
Increase the requirements for non-energy storage ejection toys;
Added requirements for mouth-driven ejection toys;
Increased the requirement for ejection with foam darts and / or suction cups (increased the length requirement for suction cup projectiles by 57 mm);
Use rigid catapult leading edge radius measurement standard;
The allowable kinetic energy density (KED) conforms to ISO requirements-2500 J / m2 (projectiles with energy> 0.08J);
Other miscellaneous changes.
9. Riding toys:
Increase the belt products that can be tested without riding;
Clarify existing overload and stability requirements;
Increase the temperature and current limit requirements for lithium-ion batteries in riding toys.
10. Toy box:
The requirements for toy boxes were restored in ASTM F963 (the 2011 version has been deleted, but CPSC believes that CPSIA requirements are part of the mandatory ASTM F963 standard, so these requirements are restored);
The toy box ASTM F834 standard (the same requirement) has been withdrawn to avoid duplication.
11.ASTM F963-17 status
ASTM notified CPSC on September 1, 2017 that the revised standard was issued, and the committee voted in November (except for the addition of the clarified phrase 8.20.1.5 (5) in the acoustic section for push-pull toys). CPSC issued the final rule, which is valid for all products manufactured after February 28, 2018.
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