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, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, is delighted to host a complimentary webinar, ‘Preferred materials and material verification for textiles and footwear,’ on September 5, 2024. Across the world, textile and footwear businesses are coming under greater scrutiny over the materials they use. Consumers are becoming more discerning in their choices and
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, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published a summary of the US EPA’s guidance on requirements and responsibilities under the methylene chloride rule, which was published on July 11, 2024. The guidance document provides a detailed overview of usage categories for the solvent methylene chloride and comes in the wake of
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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, 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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SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published SafeGuardS 114.24 to provide stakeholders with a useful summary of recent changes made to Health Canada’s approach to the General Prohibitions under the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA). Health Canada added the following consumer products to Table 1 on July 10, 2024:– Lithium-ion
SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has launched two additions to its SGS Green Marks program: Product Carbon Footprint and Carbon Footprint Reduced. Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) is an essential measurement of greenhouse gas emission and removal within a product’s life cycle. Brands, manufacturers, suppliers and retailers can now benefit from SGS
SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published a SafeGuardS summarizing Japan’s designation of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) isomers, their salts and PFOA-related compounds as Class 1 Specified Substances. Under Enforcement Order of the Act on the Examination of Chemical Substances and Regulation of Their Manufacturing, etc. (Cabinet Order No. 202 of 1974),
SGS, the world’s leading testing, inspection and certification company, has published a SafeGuardS summarizing Argentina’s Resolution 49/2024, which streamlines the labeling requirements for imported textiles, garments and footwear. Resolution 49/2024 replaces Resolution No. 404/16 of the Argentine Ministry of Commerce and modifies articles in Resolutions No. 26/96 and No. 850/96. It updates the nation’s labeling
