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EN71 is an EU standard for toy safety

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EN71-1: Toy Safety - Part 1: Physical and Mechanical Properties: This is a general requirement for toy safety. Covering the mechanical and physical properties of toys, such as sharp edges, small parts, suffocation hazards, electrical safety, etc. The specific testing items include but are not limited to: sharp edge testing: checking whether the toy has potential sharp edges that may cut children's skin. Small parts testing: Determine whether the components of the toy are small enough to be swallowed or inhaled by children, thereby posing a choking hazard. Torque and tension testing: Evaluate whether the components of the toy will detach or be damaged when subjected to a certain amount of torque or tension, in order to prevent injury to children. Drop test: Simulate the situation where a toy falls from a certain height to check whether the toy will break, produce small parts or sharp edges. Stress test: Apply a certain amount of pressure to the toy to see if it will deform, damage, or produce dangerous parts. Sound test: Detect whether the sound emitted by toys is too loud, which may cause damage to children's hearing.
EN71-2: Toy safety - Part 2: Flame retardant performance: Mainly focusing on the combustion characteristics of toy materials, it is required that toys should not burn rapidly when in contact with flames or other sources of ignition to reduce the risk of fire. For example, plush toys, silk toys, and toys worn on the head all need to undergo this test to ensure that in the event of ignition, children have enough time to discard the toys without being burned.
EN71-3: Toy safety - Part 3: Transfer of certain elements: specifies migration limits for specific elements in toy materials, including eight heavy metals such as antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, tin, etc. By simulating the soaking effect of saliva, sweat, and other substances that may occur when children come into contact with toys, we can detect whether the amount of these elements dissolved from the toy materials exceeds safety standards to ensure the health and safety of children.
EN71-4: Toy Safety - Part 4: Test Devices for Chemistry and Related Activities: specifies limits for chemical substances used in chemical test devices and related activity equipment, including test toys in the fields of chemistry, biology, physics, microbiology, and environmental science. It also specifies requirements for labeling, chemical substance usage lists, and user manuals.
EN71-5: Toy Safety - Part 5: Chemical Toys (excluding Test Devices): Provides restrictions and requirements for the use of hazardous substances in chemical toys. Mainly used for gypsum and plaster in molding and casting equipment; Ceramic and glass coloring materials used in micro stage devices. At the same time, it is pointed out that toys that are not suitable for children under 3 years old but may pose a danger to them should be labeled with age warning signs.
EN71-7: Requirements for finger painting pigments: Requirements are made for the substances, materials, and labels of finger painting pigments used by children to ensure their safety and prevent them from coming into contact with harmful ingredients.
EN71-8: Swinging, sliding, and similar toys for indoor and outdoor home entertainment: For children's outdoor amusement facilities such as swings, slides, seesaws, and carousels, standardized specifications have been established in terms of assembly, stability, static strength, maximum height of certain components, sharp corners and edges, protruding parts, etc., to ensure the safety of children when using these toys.
EN71-10: Sample preparation and extraction of organic compounds: This specifies the sample preparation and extraction methods for detecting organic compounds in toys, providing a standardized operating procedure for subsequent organic compound analysis.
EN71-11: Analysis methods for organic compounds: Specific analysis methods for organic compounds in toys have been established to ensure the accuracy and reliability of detection results, in order to accurately assess whether organic compounds in toys pose a threat to children's health.



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