October 2026

SGS hosts webinar on updates for textile products in young children’s sleeping environments

Baar (October 8, 2026) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, is delighted to host a complimentary webinar, ‘Children’s Sleep Safety: EN 16781:2026 and Other Textile Childcare Updates’ on October 29, 2026. Ensuring the safety of sleep environments for babies and young children is central to the European Committee for Standardization’s (CEN)

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SGS highlights updated EU harmonized standards for Toy Safety Directive compliance

Baar (October 7, 2026) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 128.26, highlighting the EU’s addition of three harmonized standards (HS) used to demonstrate compliance with the Toy Safety Directive (TSD), as well as the withdrawal of one existing standard. Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/2032 (the Decision) was published

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SGS highlights updated Belgian requirements for food contact ceramics

Baar (October 6, 2026) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 126.26, highlighting Belgium’s updated requirements, including stricter lead and cadmium migration limits for food contact ceramics. The Royal Decree of July 19, 2026 (C-2026/006323) amends the Royal Decree of May 1, 2006, on the declaration of compliance and

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SGS highlights New Zealand’s proposed asbestos requirements for specified sand products

Baar (October 6, 2026) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 127.26, detailing New Zealand’s proposals to prohibit asbestos in specified consumer sand products and introduce associated testing requirements. The draft Unsafe Goods (Consumer Sand Products) Notice 2026 was announced by the World Trade Organization (WTO) on September 4,

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