UK Updates the List of Designated Standards for Toys
Vol. 1386 | 30 Nov 2023
The list of Designated Standards for toys in the UK is approved to be updated under the Notice of Publication 0093/23.
The Designated Standard for electrical toys is updated to EN IEC 62115:2020 and EN IEC 62115:2020/A11:2020. There are additional voluntary safety measures for toys containing or supplied with button and coin-type batteries, listed below:
- For button and coin batteries - appropriate warnings on the packaging of toys, indicating the presence and hazards associated with such batteries, as well as actions to be taken in the event of a battery being swallowed or inserted into the body. As well as consideration for an appropriate graphical symbol to accompany these warnings.
- Where practical and appropriate placing a pictorial warning and/or hazard marking on toys containing a button or coin battery.
- Provision of information in the toy’s accompanying instruction manual (or on its packaging) of the symptoms of button or coin battery ingestion and the need to seek immediate medical attention in the event of such a suspected ingestion.
- Where coin or button batteries are supplied with a toy, and these are not pre-installed in the battery compartment, these batteries should be supplied in child-resistant packaging and appropriate warning markings placed on this packaging.
- Using coin and button batteries that are durably and indelibly marked with a pictorial warning indicating they should be kept out of reach of children or vulnerable persons.
The full list of Designated Standards for toys to have presumption of conformity with the essential requirements of the Toys (Safety) Regulations is as follows:
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1 |
EN 71-1:2014+A1:2018 Safety of toys - Part 1: Mechanical and physical properties |
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2 |
EN 71-2:2020 Safety of toys - Part 2: Flammability |
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3 |
EN 71-3:2019+A1:2021 Safety of toys - Part 3: Migration of certain elements Informative Note: The interpretation of clause 7 of the standard should be taken to require that test portions should not be made up of combined materials prior to the migration and analysis stages of the test. |
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4 |
EN 71-4:2020 Safety of toys - Part 4: Experimental sets for chemistry and related activities |
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5 |
EN 71-5:2015 Safety of toys - Part 5: Chemical toys (sets) other than experimental sets |
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6 |
EN 71-7:2014+A3:2020 Safety of toys - Part 7: Finger paints - Requirements and test method |
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7 |
EN 71-8:2018 Safety of toys - Part 8: Activity toys for domestic use |
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8 |
EN 71-12:2016 Safety of toys — Part 12: N-Nitrosamines and N-nitrosatable substances Informative Note: The limit values in point a) of Table 2 of clause 4.2 of standard ‘EN 71-12:2016 Safety of toys — Part 12: N-Nitrosamines and N-nitrosatable substances’ are lower than the limit values to be complied with set in point 8 of part III of Annex II to S.I. 2011/1881. In particular those values are as follows:
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9 |
EN 71-13:2021+A1:2022 Safety of toys - Part 13: Olfactory board games, cosmetic kits and gustative games |
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10 |
EN 71-14:2018 Safety of toys - Part 14: Trampolines for domestic use |
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11 |
EN IEC 62115:2020 Electric toys - Safety EN IEC 62115:2020/A11:2020 Informative Note: The presumption of conformity with the essential requirements of the Toys (Safety) Regulations, as provided for in those Regulations, applies through application of the above standard. The content of this note has been brought to the attention of the relevant standard committee in respect to toys containing or supplied with button and coin type batteries to consider the additional measures below for the next revision of the standard.
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