The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) published EN 71-7:2014+A3:2020 for finger paints. This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by October 2020, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by October 2020.
This amendment is expected to be harmonized under the Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC when it is accepted by the European Commission and announced in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU).
Below are the major changes in the amendment:
• The maximum concentration allowed for preservative – climbazole (item 22) is changed from 0.5% to 0.2% (this concentration has been already stated in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) as a note when EN 71-7:2014+A2:2018 was harmonised in 2018)
• “Benzo[α]pyrene” is replaced by “Benzo[a]pyrene” in the whole standard
• References of “Directive 2008/128/EC” is updated to “Regulation 231/2012” in Tables A.1 and A.2
• The limit of quantitation (LOQ) for benzo[a]pyrene is changed from 0.02 mg/kg to 0.05 mg/kg in Annex F.6
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