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Australia Revises Radiofrequency Spectrum Plan to Align with Global Standards

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Baar (December 9, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 166.25, reporting on Australian Radiofrequency Spectrum Plan (ARSP) Variation 2025 (No.1), which defines how frequencies 8.3 kHz to 420 THz are allocated across Australia. The update, under legislative instrument F2025L01230, incorporates the latest International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Radio […]

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SGS expands UK capabilities with new state-of-the-art consumer goods testing facility in Manchester

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Baar (December 9, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, is pleased to announce the opening of its new cutting-edge, UKAS-accredited testing facility in Manchester. The new laboratory strengthens SGS’s capabilities in hardlines and electrical and electronic (E&E) product testing, helping manufacturers and retailers comply with UK and international regulatory requirements.

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Tackling PFAS concerns in cosmetics and personal care products with SGS expertise

Cosmetics & Personal Care /

Baar (December 4, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, provides advanced testing solutions to help cosmetics and personal care brands navigate tightening regulations and consumer concerns around per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Often called ‘forever chemicals’, PFAS are found in a wide range of cosmetic and personal care products –

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California Restricts Cosmetic Ingredients with Musk Reduction Act

Cosmetics & Personal Care /

Baar (December 3, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 172.25, summarizing the introduction of California’s Musk Reduction Act, which places legal restrictions on bioaccumulative and potentially toxic cosmetic ingredients. The manufacture, sale, distribution or offering for sale of any cosmetic products containing the specifically added ingredients musk

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Toy Standards List Revision for Moldova

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Baar (December 2, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 173.25, focusing on Moldova’s revision of its toy safety standards list. Order No. 79/2025 from Moldova’s Ministry of Economic Development and Digitalization approves the country’s list of standards, which adopts harmonized European standards for the presumption of conformity

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Nitrosamines in Rubber Pacifier Nipples Standard Reinstated by ASTM International

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Baar (December 2, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 171.25, reporting on the reinstatement of the ASTM International standard F1313-25 ‘Standard Specification for Volatile N-nitrosamine Levels in Rubber Nipples on Pacifiers’. This October 2025 update re-establishes restrictions contained in ASTM F1313-90 (reapproved 2011). The standard was withdrawn

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AFIRM Group Publishes Version 10.1 of 2025 RSL

Softlines /

Baar (November 27, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 170.25, detailing a midyear update from the Apparel and Footwear International RSL Management (AFIRM) Working Group on the 2025 Restricted Substances List (RSL). The AFIRM Working Group is an industry forum made up of major softline brands collaborating

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New CEN Standard for Finger Paints Released

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Baar (November 27, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 169.25, reporting on the European Committee for Standardization’s (CEN) latest version of its finger paint standard, EN 71-7:2025. EN 71-7:2025, ‘Finger Paints – Requirements and Test Methods’ was issued in October 2025. This version includes specifications for substances

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Transitional Measures for Certain Food Plastics Amended by the EU

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Baar (November 26, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 168.25, highlighting the publication of Commission Regulation (EU) 2025/2240 on November 6, 2025. This Regulation revises transitional measures for food contact plastics made with salicylic acid or untreated wood flour and fibers. Concerns about the toxicity of these

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Food Contact Recycled Plastics Legislation Updated by the EU

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Baar (November 26, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 167.25, focusing on the identification and correction of errors in the EU’s Regulation (EU) 2022/1616 on recycled materials and articles intended to come into contact with food. Several errors have been identified since the implementation of the Regulation

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