Ukraine has published a draft resolution that, if accepted, will bring its toy safety legislation into closer alignment with the European Union’s Directive 2009/48/EC, the so-called European Toy Safety Directive (TSD).
The draft resolution – Draft Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine On Amendments to the Technical Regulations for Toy Safety – was published by the Ukrainian Ministry for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture on September 15, 2020. Among several important changes, it aims to:
- Strengthen the migration of aluminum 2.5-fold for all three categories of toy materials. The proposed migration limits are:
- Category I – 2,250 mg/kg
- Category II – 560 mg/kg
- Category III – 28,130 mg/kg
- Strengthen the migration of chromium (VI) by approximately 4-fold for category III toy materials – to 0.053 mg/kg
- Add three levels of requirement for formaldehyde (migration, emission and content) in toys for children under 36 months or in other toys intended to be placed in the mouth:
- Formaldehyde migration in polymeric materials – no more than 1.5 mg/l
- Formaldehyde emission in resin-bonded wood – no more than 0.1 ml/m³
- Formaldehyde content in each of textile, leather and paper materials – no more than 30 mg/kg
- Formaldehyde content in water-based toys – no more than 10 mg/kg
The three categories of toy material are:
- Category I – dry, brittle, powder-like or pliable (e.g. chalk, bouncing putties, crayons, plasticine)
- Category II – liquid or sticky toys (e.g. bubble solutions, finger paints, slimes)
- Category III – scraped-off (e.g. ceramics, textiles, wood, bone, leather, polymers, elastomers)
Ukraine originally approved its ‘Technical Regulations on the Safety of Toys’ in 2018. If accepted, the draft proposal will come into effect six months after it is published in Ukraine’s Official Journal.
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