Baar (December 10, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 179.25, reporting on Japan’s Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA), which takes effect on December 25, 2025. The CPSA applies new requirements to toys intended for children under 36 months. After December 25, 2025, they must be marked with […]
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Baar (December 10, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 177.25, reporting on the addition of button/coin battery containing product and their packaging to Table 2 in Health Canada’s Approach to the General Prohibitions under the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA). Table 2 provides performance criteria such
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Baar (December 10, 2025) – SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, is delighted to announce the opening of a new testing laboratory in Phnom Penh. The new facility, which will provide the first full physical and chemical testing service for plush and costume toys in Cambodia, will be open for applications in
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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