Europe Updates its Toy Standard EN 71-3 'Migration of Certain Elements'
Europe has published a new version of the standard relating to the migration of certain elements in toys. EN 71-3:2013+A2:2017 was published by the CEN in August 2017.
- (1888PressRelease) October 07, 2017 - The European Committee for Standardization (Comité Européen de Normalisation, CEN) published a new standard for toy safety in August 2017. EN 71-3:2013+A2:2017 covers the ‘migration of certain elements’.
EN 71-3:2013+A2:2017 instigates several changes to toy safety regulations in Europe, mostly relating to the preparation of samples and the analysis of organic tin compounds. These include:
• A Multiple Reaction Monitoring (MRM) chromatogram detailing signals and retention times for different organic tin compounds to assist instrumental analysis
• A set of MRM data for certain organic tin compounds, including deuterated forms of internal standards, to assist instrumental analysis
• Special precautions in preventing conversion of inorganic tin substances to organic tin compounds to avoid false positive results, including the use of organic tin methods, such as ISO/TS 16179 ‘Organotin compounds in footwear materials’ to confirm EN 71-3 results
It is expected that this standard will be given the status of a national standard by February 2018, with conflicting standards being withdrawn by the same date. It is also anticipated that the standard will be harmonized under Directive 2009/48/EC, the so-called Toy Safety Directive (TSD), once it has been officially accepted by the European Commission (EC) and published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU).
Stakeholders are advised to check their products comply with the latest requirements of the TSD. Copies of the new standard are now available on a commercial basis from national standards agencies like the Danish Standards Foundation (Dansk Standard) and the Estonian Center for Standardization (Eesti Standardikeskus, EVS).
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