EU Published The Toy Safety Standard EN 71-3:2019+A1:20211:
Migration Of Certain Elements
On 14 April 2021, the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) published the toy safety standard EN 71-3:2019+A1:20211: Migration of certain elements. All members of the CEN have to adopt and publish their national standard by 31 October 2021.
The European and International Standard establishes requirements and test methods for the migration of aluminium, antimony, arsenic, barium, boron, cadmium, Chromium (III), Chromium (VI), cobalt, copper, lead, manganese, mercury, nickel, selenium, strontium, tin, organic tin and zinc from toy materials and from parts of toys.
This standard is intended for harmonization in support of the Toys Directive in Europe. It will be given the status of a national standard of CEN member states, and conflicting national standards will be replaced by the end of October 2021 at the latest.
Compared with the previous version, this time mainly revised the migration limit of aluminum element, as follows:
1. Class I toy materials: the migration limit of aluminum has been changed from 5625 mg/kg to 2250 mg/kg;
2. Class II toy materials: The migration limit of aluminum has been changed from 1406 mg/kg to 560 mg/kg;
3. Class III toy materials: the migration limit of aluminum has been changed from 70,000 mg/kg to 28130 mg/kg
GESTER Toys safety tester meet with standards ISO 8124, EN 71, ASTM F963,16 CFR 1500 and test for shape, size, contour, spacing as well as acceptable criteria for properties peculiar to certain categories of toy.
Toys Flammability Tester GT-M17
Standards:
EN 71-2 ,ISO 8124-2,GB 6675.3
EN 16890-2017 Section 7
Toy Kinetic Energy Tester GT-M18B
Standards:
ISO 8124-1 section 5.15GB6675-2 section 5.15
EN-71-1 section 8.24
ASTM F963 section 8.1
Sharp Edge Tester Standards:
EN 71-1 ASTM F963 16CFR 1500
ISO 8124-1GB 6675-2