EU FREQUENTLY RECALL TOYS AND CHILDCARE ARTICLES CONTAINING PHTHALATES ABOVE THE PERMITTED LEVELS

Phthalates has always been the focus of EU Customs inspection on the imported toys and childcare articles, and as the EU REACH Regulation comes into force, the number of recalls concerning toys and childcare articles containing phthalates is much more than heavy metals. . According to the statistics of EU Rapid Alert System for Non-Food

NEW YORK STATE PROPOSES PROHIBITION ON THE MANUFACTURE, DISTRIBUTION AND SALE OF CHILDREN’S FOAM MATS CONTAINING FORMAMIDE

On the 7th of January 2015 the New York State has introduced two bills A00106 and S00583 proposed to prohibit the manufacture, distribution and sale of children’s foam mats containing formamide designed for use by children three years old or younger.According to the bills, from the 1st of December 2017 no person, firm, partnership, association, limited

2014 CHILDREN AND INFANTS CLOTHING PRODUCT QUALITY SUPERVISION AND INSPECTION RESULTS

The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the  Republic of China has issued the results of the 2014 children and infants clothing product quality supervision and inspection on the 6th of January. This action involved a total of 328 batches of children and infants clothing products from Beijing, Hebei, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Henan,

ANALYSIS OF PRODUCT RECALLS OF CLOTHING AND FOOTWEAR FOR JANUARY 2015

European Union The EU RAPEX system has notified 12 cases of products recalled, 75% were notified because of the risk of strangulation. Nine of these were children’s clothing which do not comply with the drawstring regulation. 1 child’s hat and 1 child’s sleeping bag were recalled because the small pompoms can easily detach and a small child could