New Toy Safety Standard Published in Australia and New Zealand

A look at Australia and New Zealand’s new joint standard for the ‘Migration of Certain Elements’ from toy materials and components. End Quote

(1888PressRelease) March 25, 2021 - Standards authorities in Australia and New Zealand have published a new joint standard that specifies the maximum acceptable limits for the migration of eight elements from toy materials and components. The standard – AS/NZS ISO 8124.3:2021 – also includes methods for sampling, extraction and determination.

Published in February 2021, the new standard supersedes both previous standards – AS/NZS 8124.3:2012 and AS/NZS ISO 8124.3:2012 Amd 1:2016. Its migration values for the eight elements – antimony (Sb), arsenic (As), barium (Ba), cadmium (Cd), chromium (Cr), lead (Pb), mercury (Hg) and selenium (Se) – differ depending upon the type of toy material:

• Toy materials other than modeling clay and finger paints
• Modeling clay
• Finger paints

To see a full breakdown of the migration values, see SafeGuard 032/21.

The new standard contains several changes from the previous standards. These include:
• Separating the definitions for paper and paperboard:
o Paper: sheet formed by irregular intervened cellulose fibers with a mass per unit area of 400 g/m² or less. Laminated paper or paper with other treatments that may be resistant to wetting are not treated as paper
o Paperboard: includes card or cardboard materials, means sheet formed by irregular intervened cellulose fibers with a mass per unit area of more than 400 g/m², excluding pressed fiberboards such as medium density fiberboard (MDF), chipboard and materials with similar properties
• Completely new definition for method blank, calibration blank, instrument detection limit and calibration check solution
• Allowing dewaxing to be carried out using either soxhlet extractor or solvent extractor – both procedures according to ISO 824-6:2018
• Completely new Annex C (informative) on methods for analysis of elements (former Annex C has been re-designated as Annex D with modifications in the new standard)

Stakeholders should be aware the new standard is identical to ISO 8124-3:2020.

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SGS SafeGuardS keep you up to date with the latest news and developments in the consumer goods industry. Read the full Australia and New Zealand Publish AS/NZS ISO 8124.3:2021 ‘Migration of Certain Elements’ SafeGuardS. [www.sgs.com/en/news/2021/03/safeguards-03221-australia-and-new-zealand-publish-as-nzs-iso-8124-3-2021]

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