Turkey has updated its Toy Safety Regulation (Oyuncak Güvenliği Yönetmeliği (OGY)) to strengthen various chemical provisions and further its alignment with Directive 2009/48/EC, the so-called European Toy Safety Directive (TSD). Regulation Number 30988 was published on December 24, 2019. It contains several important changes to the OGY, including: – Strengthening the migration limits for: Chromium […]

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

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

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