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CEN Published New Edition EN 71-3:2019+A2:2024 Migration of certain elements

On December 4, 2024, European Committee for Standardization (CEN) published EN 71-3:2019+A2:2024, the new edition toy safety standard for Migration of certain elements. This standard is expected to be harmonized before June 2025 under Directive 2009/48/EC Toy Safety Directive (TSD), upon official acceptance by the European Commission (EC) and by publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU).

The main changes to the previous edition EN 71-3:2019+A1:2021 are as follows:
- Removed slime as an example of a category II toy material. Indicated the use of CEN/TS 17973:2023 ‘Safety of toys - Categorization of slime type materials’, which is to determine whether the categorization of products with slime-like properties are classified as category 1 (dry-brittle, powder-like or pliable) or category 2 (liquid or sticky) toy materials.
- Emphasized that test portions shall not be composed of more than one toy material, unless discreet specimens cannot be physically separated, such as dot printing, patterned textiles and multi-colored printed surface. Composite testing can be useful for raw material checks as well as screening or pre-test of materials.
- Deleted the dewaxing procedure in sample preparation.
- Revised various rationales and new rationales concerning sampling and deletion of the dewaxing procedure have been added in Annex H.

For further details, please refer to the below link:
https://standards.cencenelec.eu/dyn/www/f?p=CEN:110:0::::FSP_PROJECT,FSP_ORG_ID:80787,6036&cs=14B62E197C890FFD0E4AB91AA351243DA