Brazil Consolidates Assessment Requirements for Party Items

Brazil’s
Ministry of Economy and National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology
(INMETRO) has published a new ordinance that consolidates conformity assessment
requirements for party items.

Published
in March 2021 and coming into effect on April 1, 2021, Ordinance No. 121 of March 15, 2021, repeals several INMTERO
ordinances:

• 545/2012
• 603/2013
• 270/2015
• 147/2019
• 507/2019
• 343/2020

Ordinance
121/2021 has a variety of provisions, including:

Annex
I ‘Conformity Assessment Requirements’:

• Criteria
  and procedures for assessment
• Adoption
  of ABNT NBR 13883:2015 – Safety of Party Supplies: Requirements and Test
  Methods
• Certification
  Models 2 (only for micro and small enterprises), 5 or 1b to achieve the
  necessary certificate of conformity (CoC)
• Safety
  requirements (including):
  • Physical
    and mechanical properties
  • Flammability
    properties for textile materials
  • Prohibition
    of pentachlorophenol (PCP) and its salts in wood materials
  • Migration
    limit of 8 mg/dm² for food contact or oral contact items
  • Restriction
    limits for 8 soluble elements:

Antimony
(Sb): no more than 60 mg/kg

Arsenic
(As): no more than 25 mg/kg

Barium
(Ba): no more than 1,000 mg/kg

Cadmium
(Cd): no more than 75 mg/kg

Chromium
(Cr): no more than 60 mg/kg

Lead
(Pb): no more than 90 mg/kg

Mercury
(Hg): no more than 60 mg/kg

Selenium
(Se) : no more than 500 mg/kg

• No
  more than 0.1% for (the sum of) six phthalates in plasticized materials, such
  as vinyl materials, that are more than 100 mg in weight

Annex
II ‘Conformity Identification Seal’: establishes requirements, includes
illustrations of formats and dimensions

Annex
III ‘Framework for Party Items’: list of products that are considered within
and outside the scope of the Ordinance

The
six phthalates are:

• Benzylbutyl
  phthalate (BBP)
• Dibutyl
  phthalate (DBP)
• Di-(2-ethylhexyl)
  phthalate (DEHP)
• Diisodecyl
  phthalate (DIDP)
• Diisononyl
  phthalate (DINP)
• Di-n-octyl
  phthalate (DNOP)

Stakeholders are now advised to read SGS’s SafeGuard
056/21 to read a more complete list of Annex I provisions, and check their
products comply with the latest Brazilian regulations.

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