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Standard Update | Migration of Specific Elements for EU Toys EN 71-3:2019+A2:2024

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2025-02-11

On October 31, 2024, the Technical Committee 52 (CEN/TC 52) of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) approved the second revised version of the toy safety standard EN 71-3 EN 71-3:2019+A2: 2024 "Toy Safety - Part 3: Migration of Specific Elements".

On December 4, 2024, CEN/TC 52 released a publicly available version file.

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By March 31, 2025, all CEN member states (including EU member states) must notify at the national level that the revised standards have been established.

On June 30, 2025, all CEN member states (including EU member states) must publish equivalent national standards (with national differences) or directly adopt them as national standards, and revoke/discontinue conflicting and previous versions, and uniformly adopt the new standards.

 

 

The main technical changes in this update are as follows:

As part of the EN 71 series of toy safety standards:

⚪ Removed EN 71 Part 9, Organic chemical compounds - Requirements

Note:

In order to regulate and clarify certain health risks, the European Commission authorized the standardization agency (CEN) in 2002 to develop specific requirements for certain organic compounds commonly found in toys, based on the requirements of the then Council Directive 88/378/EEC on toys. In 2005, CEN produced three new standards as branches of the EN71 series standards, namely:

EN 71-9: 2005 Safety of toys: organic chemical compounds: requirements

EN 71-10: 2006 Safety of toys: organic chemical compounds: sample preparation and extraction

EN 71-11: 2005 Safety of toys: organic chemical compounds: test methods

Considering the development of the toy industry, testing costs, timing, and many other factors, the European Commission has not yet published these three standards in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) as coordinated standards to support the Toy Directive. So these three standards have always been regarded as "voluntary standards" with pursuit, and their use is confusing.

On August 31, 2022, EN 71-9 was revoked, and the EN71-3 standard also made adaptive deletions to this part of the content (however, some requirements in EN71-9 have been added to Appendix C of Annex II of the new Toy Directive 2009/48/EC). EN71-10 and EN 71-11 are still retained as a set of pre-processing and testing methods.

In addition to the above, the following documents have also been introduced as a supplement to the EN71 series standards:

EN 71-15: Formamide in foam toy materials (content)

EN 71-16: Certain chlorinated phosphorus flame retardants (TCEP, TCPP, TDCP) in toy materials

EN 71-17: Certain isothiazolinones (MIT, CIT, BIT) in aqueous toy materials

EN 71-18: Phenol in aqueous (content) and polymeric (migration) toy materials

EN 71-19: Migration of bisphenol A from toy materials

*EN71-20:  Safety of toys - Part 20: Microbial safety of toys containing accessible aqueous media

This standard is currently in the approval stage, and it is expected that the next update to EN71-3 will supplement the content of this section

⚪ Introduce the use of CEN/TS 17973, Safety of toys — Categorization of slime type materials;  Toy Safety - Classification of Mucous Materials "is a technical specification document (TS) that supports the classification of products with mucous properties into Class 1 (crisp, powdery, or flexible) or Class 2 (liquid or viscous) toy materials;

⚪ Emphasize that the testing section should not be composed of multiple toy materials, unless discrete samples cannot be physically separated, such as dot printing, patterned textiles, and multi-color printed surfaces;

⚪ The dewaxing step for products containing oils, fats, waxes, or similar materials has been removed, as test data shows that the dewaxing step can affect the reproducibility of test results;

⚪ Allow the use of migration results of total chromium (Cr) to infer whether the product meets the migration limits for trivalent chromium (Cr (III)) and hexavalent chromium (Cr (VI)) (provided that the LOQ meets the conditions, if the total chromium value is less than the limit for hexavalent chromium of the corresponding material category, it can be inferred that the material meets the requirements for specific categories of trivalent chromium and hexavalent chromium);

⚪ Allow the use of total tin (Sn) migration results to infer whether the product meets the migration limit for organic tin. If the tin concentration measured in the migration solution is found to be lower than the limit value of the corresponding category of organotin, it can be inferred that the material meets the requirements for tin and organotin in that specific category;

⚪ Emphasizing mixed testing is a modification of testing methods. (i.e. mixed testing has not been confirmed in EN 71-3:2019+A2:2024, and mixed testing may result in biased results)

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