India has revised its import policy for toys, effective December 2, 2019. The new policy, published as Notification No. 33/2015-2020, amends the previous set of requirements published in Notification No. 26/2015-2020 in September 2017. The set of requirements published in 2017 contained, inter alia, two important provisions: 1) Requiring certification that confirms toys conform to […]
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The Ministry of Science and Technology of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has announced the introduction of new technical regulation on toy safety. The new regulation, QCVN 3:2019/BKHCN, and published under Circular Number 09/2019/TT-BKHCN of September 30, 2019, will update QCVN 3:2009/BKHC. The new regulation, as with the old, applies to toys for children under
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In November two reports into food contact materials and articles (FCMs) were published in Europe that may ultimately impact the manufacturers of such products containing bamboo and melamine-formaldehyde resin: On November 25, 2019, the German Federal Institute of Risk Assessment (BfR) issued a risk assessment study on the use of FCM made from melamine-formaldehyde resin
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