EN 71-9 SOLUTIONS – TOY SAFETY
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REDUCE AND CONTROL HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES IN TOYS Measures are strengthened in Europe to improve child safety.
The European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) developed the EN71 Toy Series of standards to identify and regulate issues in toy safety, including EN71-9: 2005 Safety of toys - Organic chemical compounds: requirements. EN71-9 specifies the requirements for migration or content of certain hazardous organic chemical compounds from /in toys and toy materials through all possible exposure routes: Mouthing, Ingestion, Skin contact, Eye contact, Inhalation, used as intended or in a foreseeable way.
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Scope
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sets down safety criteria and essential requirements which toys must meet before being placed on the EU market. It is said that toys must not present a health hazard by ingestion, inhalation, skin or mucous membrane contact. Until now the only standard used to assess these risks has been EN71-3 but it is limited in that it only considers risks presented by 8 heavy elements through ingestion. 
