The European Union aims to ensure toy safety for children through specific measures.
Proactive Measures Ahead for European Toy Safety
🔔 Streamlined rules to keep kiddos safe 🔔
From dinosaurs to dragons, the European parliament's put its foot down on dangerous chemicals in toys. They've struck a deal to tighten safety regulations, focusing on substances known to cause cancer, mess with DNA, and harm reproductive organs.
🌐 Online marketplaces, manufacturers, and sellers, take note!
Those hazardous products lurking in our daily lives? Most of them hide in cosmetics (36%) or toys (15%). That's why manufacturers need to conduct a safety assessment for every toy they plan to sell, covering potential risks. Once approved, those toys will flaunt a QR code passport, showcasing their compliance with safety standards.
🚫 Beware of the counterfeit ❌
Even the best safety guidelines can't stop crafty sellers from flogging illegal toys. Europol's gotta your back, though. They've issued a handy guide to spotting fakes: watch out for ridiculously low prices, missing labels, clear plastic bags, or brand names with spelling errors.
🗣 Marion Walsmann, EPP's Legal Affairs Committee vice chairwoman, led the negotiations on the toy safety file. She said there was widespread political support for the new legislation and a general consensus on modernizing the rules from a directive to a regulation.
📅 Here's what's next: the Internal Market Committee will vote again, followed by a plenary session in October. After that, the amended regulations will be published in the Official Journal of the European Union, coming into force in 2029.
🌱 The EU's putting children's health first by banning harmful chemicals, including endocrine disruptors and PFAS (forever chemicals), and providing parents with vital product information.
- Sneak Peek 💡
- The new Toy Safety Regulation, set to replace the 2009 directive, is designed to address longstanding issues, such as unsafe chemicals, enforcement gaps, and market transparency.
- It aims to improve traceability, transparency, and enforcement by introducing a Digital Product Passport (DPP) for every toy sold in the EU, serving as a digital version of the Declaration of Conformity.
- The DPP will provide important information, such as CE marking, detailed data on allergens and substances of concern, and commodity classification codes.
- The new regulation is part of a broader EU consumer product agenda emphasizing sustainability and transparency, aligning with initiatives such as the EU Green Claims Directive and the European Green Deal.
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Topics Covered: European politics, Children's protection, Consumer protection, Toy safety Toys
- The new Toy Safety Regulation, a part of the European Union's broader consumer product agenda, aims to improve policy-and-legislation by modernizing rules and addressing longstanding issues like unsafe chemicals and market transparency.
- In addition to healthcare-and-wellness initiatives, the European Union has shown its commitment to science by focusing on the health-and-wellness of children, banning harmful chemicals from toys and providing vital product information.
