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Preparing EU businesses for toy standards update webinar

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SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, is delighted to announce a complimentary webinar, ‘Is Your Business Ready for the EU’s Revised Toy Standards?’, which takes place on September 26, 2024. The EU introduced Standardization Requests to define work programs for setting topics and requests for standards revision. Discussions on toy standards were […]

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SGS Summarizes German BFR Recommendations for Several Types of Food Contact Materials and Articles

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SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 133/24, summarizing the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment’s (Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung, BfR) recommendations for five different types of food contact materials and articles. Immediately effective, the five revised recommendations are for food contact silicones, paper and board, and temperature resistant polymer coatings

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SGS Summarizes EDQM Revision of Technical Guideline on Food Contact Metals and Alloys

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SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has highlighted the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and Healthcare (EDQM)’s 2024 2nd Edition of its technical guide for food contact metals and alloys. The revised second edition is effective immediately. Several important changes when compared with the 2013 1st Edition. The new edition:–

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SGS Summarizes EU Consultation on Listing of UV-328 under POP Recast Regulation

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SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has detailed the EU’s consultation on its plans to add UV-328 to the persistent organic pollutant (POP) Recast Regulation. Used as a UV absorber for the protection of surfaces against discoloration and degradation under ultraviolet/sunlight, UV-328 (2-(2H-benzotriazol-2-yl)-4-6-ditertpentylphenol) substance has a wide range of uses, including but

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SGS Summarizes Revised Standard for Electric Toys in China

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SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published details of revisions to the safety standard for toys in China. GB/T 19865-2024 was announced by the Standardization Administration of China (SAC) on July 24, 2024. GB/T 19865-2024 replaces GB 19865-2005, and is effective from August 1, 2026. Among the updates are additional requirements

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SGS Offers Complimentary Webinar on EU PPE Helmet Requirements

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SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, is delighted to host a complimentary webinar for personal protective equipment (PPE) helmet manufacturers and suppliers – ‘PPE helmets: EU requirements overview’ – on September 5, 2024. The essential function of a PPE helmet is to prevent head injuries. Used in both professional and private spheres

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SGS Summarizes New China Standard for Pet Products

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SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published an overview of the new Chinese national standard for pet products, GB/T 43839. GBT 43839-2024 Technical Requirements for Safety of Companion Animal (Pet) Products is the first recommended national standard to help ensure a reasonable degree of safety for both humans and pets during

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SGS Summarizes New Australian Mandatory Safety Standard for Bicycle Helmets

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SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 115.24 to provide stakeholders with an overview of Australia’s new mandatory safety standard for bicycle helmets. Updated on March 22, 2024, Consumer Goods (Bicycle Helmets) Safety Standard 2024 applies to helmets that offer protection to the skull during impact. It sets out the

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SGS Summarizes Montenegro Alignment of Toy Safety Requirements with EU

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SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 117.24 to provide toy manufacturers and suppliers with an overview of Montenegro’s further alignment of its toy safety requirements with European Union (EU) legislation. Montenegro originally published its Rulebook on Toy Safety (OGM No.4/2015) in 2015. This effectively adopted EU Directive 2009/48/EC, the

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SGS Summarizes South Korean Revision to Food Contact Material Standards

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SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published a SafeGuardS on South Korea’s revision of its national standards and specifications for food contact materials and articles. The South Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) issued Notice No. 2024-29 on June 21, 2024, to partially revise ‘Standards and Specifications for Utensils,

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