Standard EN71 - Handmade toys

What standard for toys?

The toy is defined as any product or material designed or clearly intended to be used for play by children under the age of 14.
The regulation requires that a toy has :

• CE marking
• CE certification
• Conformity to the EN 71 standard with the 3 main chapters 71-1 71-2 71-3 under the presence of test reports.

A product is considered as a toy only if it is a finished finished product.

Small reminder on the standard EN 71:
The EN 71 standard comes from the European Council Directive 88/378/EEC.
This European standard sets the requirements and describes the test methods to be taken into consideration during the manufacture of toys.
Its aim is to reduce as much as possible the risks that are not obvious to the users.

The standard includes specific requirements for toys intended for children under 36 months.
The EN 71 standard is divided into several chapters which touch the following areas in particular:

• EN 71-1 :Mechanical and physical properties:which includes, among other things, tests to prevent the detachment of 'small parts' that can causechokinghazards , and others to detect sharp points and edges that can cause injuries.
• EN 71-2:Flammability:Which analyzes the speed of flame spread on a toy to ensure that your children have time to get away from it if the toy were to catch fire.
• EN 71-3:Migration of certain elements:which allows to simulate a digestion by the child of a piece of the toy, in order to analyze if heavy metals would migrate from the material to the organism (Verification of the presence of chemical elements, prohibition bisphenol A, lead, nickel, etc...).

In the case of the wooden figurines (reference TECH-656,657,658,659,660), due to their shape and size, they cannot be considered as a toy.They are not to be considered as a toy.

They must be assembled with other products and then submitted to a laboratory for analysis of the physical, mechanical physical, mechanical (71-1) and flammability (71-2) of the EN 71 toy standard, in order to be put in the hands of a child under 36 months.
The use of this type of article is identical to that of a wooden bead that you will use to assemble a pacifier or mobile for a child.

The term: "teething ring", systematically and obligatorily classifies the product as a finished toy, which subjects it to the standard of the toys EN 71 and these 3 principal chapters to its obligations but also to the CE marking and the certification.

For our professional customers, some important information if you want to manufacture and sell teething rings:

• Make sure that the products used are in compliance with the REACH regulation for metal items (nickel, lead, cadmium), but also that your wooden or other products have been analyzed on the presence of heavy metals or other toxic substances, ask for the analysis reports to your supplier.
• Once the teething ring is finished, submit your creation to a certified laboratory in order to carry out the analysis/testing reports on the EN 71-1 and 71-2 toy safety standard in force.
• Affix the CE mark/logo on your creation and ask your laboratory to carry out a conformity check according to the toy directive.
  Only once the validation and certification has been approved by your laboratory can you market your teething ring.

ImportantThis procedure must be repeated each time your model changes.
However, if you use the same components, colors, models, it will not be necessary to perform this procedure each time you produce.

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