Geneva (November 4, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has broken new ground with the award of its first SGS Premium Performance Mark for an outdoor powered exoskeleton. The certification was awarded to Hypershell for its Hypershell X Series, the world’s first outdoor powered exoskeleton integrating robotics, ergonomics and an […]
Geneva (November 3, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 156.25, outlining updates to China’s toy safety standard GB 6675, parts 1 through 4. The following standards were published by the National Standardization Administration of China on October 5, 2025:– GB 6675.1-2025 Safety of toys – Part 1:
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Geneva (November 3, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, is pleased to announce its complimentary webinar, ‘USP665 in Practice: Addressing Industry Questions on Single-Use System Compliance’, taking place on November 20, 2025. This live session will feature a roundtable discussion hosted by SGS’s leading extractables and leachables (E&L) experts, joined
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Geneva (November 3, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, is pleased to announce a free, expert-led webinar, ‘Risk Analysis and the EU General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR)’, on November 18, 2025. As the European market transitions from the General Product Safety Directive (GPSD) to the EU General Product Safety Regulation
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Geneva (October 31, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 155.25 to inform stakeholders that Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and other competent authorities intend to designate three persistent organic pollutants (POPs), as Class I Specified Chemical Substances under the Law Concerning the Evaluation of Chemical
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Geneva (October 31, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 154.25 to inform stakeholders that Germany’s Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung, BfR) has updated several recommendations for food contact materials (FCMs) and articles. Effective October 1, 2025, the BfR issued eight revised recommendations and withdrew
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Geneva (October 30, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 153.25 to inform stakeholders of Montenegro’s amendments to its chemical and persistent organic pollutant (POP) regulations. Issued on October 6, 2025, Official Gazette of Montenegro (OGM) No. 112/2025 updates Annexes 1 and 2 of the Regulation on prohibited
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Geneva (October 30, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 152.25 to inform stakeholders that the European Union (EU) has adopted Commission Regulation (EU) 2025/1988, introducing new restrictions on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in firefighting foams (FFFs) under Entry 82 to Annex XVII of REACH – the
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Geneva (October 30, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing inspection and certification company, is pleased to announce that it has presented the Owlet Dream Sight™ with the first SGS Cybersecurity Mark for a baby monitor. This presentation follows SGS’s first evaluation of a baby monitor under the EU’s Radio Equipment Directive, an evaluation that
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Geneva (October 29, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 146/25 to provide stakeholders operating in France with an overview of the country’s new environmental cost labeling requirements for textile products. On September 6, 2025, France released Decree n°2025-957 and an associated Arrêté, setting out the framework for
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