On February 15, 2012, The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission  (CPSC) has accepted ASTM F963-11 as the Mandatory Toy Safety Standard, that will apply to toys manufactured on or after June 12, 2012.

The Challenge
The revised F963-11 standard establishes and revises many requirements for toy safety. Are you prepared to incorporate them in design & manufacturing, and to ensure and certify that your toys comply with the revised to standard?  

Most significant among these changes are the new limits on the eight heavy metals in the content (substrate) of the toys (in addition to their current limitation in the paints and other toy surface coatings).

The revised standard also addresses the issues related to jaw entrapment; squeeze toys; ride-on toys; toy seats; and stuffing materials.

The Solution
Intertek, through our extensive global network, has a variety of services available to help you overcome the challenges related to complying with the ASTM toy safety standard and its requirements. Besides keeping you ｕｐｄａｔｅd on these and other new CPSC product safety developments, Intertek experts can assess your specific compliance and product testing needs and recommend ways to ensure that your toy and other product testing programs meet all the CPSC (and other US and international) requirements, in the most effective and efficient way possible.