As children's products and the continual upgrading and the emergence of new products, old ASTMF963 standard has not some toy products of the potential safety hazards and risks in a timely manner to control and eliminate. Therefore, the U.S. Society for Testing Materials in May this year, an upgrade of the standard. China's toy exporters should have a new standard for response measures.

  ASTM F963 standard background  As we all know, the United States and the European Union countries such as the world's leading importer, with imports and products are on a strict access system. ASTMF963 standards as mandatory standards which one, since the promulgation in December 2003 has been to protect the safety of children plays an important role. However, the continuous upgrading of children's products and the emergence of new products, earlier versions of ASTMF963 standard has not some toy products of the potential safety hazards and risks for timely control and eradication, and has thus led to a series of injury and response Back to the event, the United States Institute of Materials and experimental (ASTM) in May 2007 updated on ASTMF963 standards and upgrades, new standards are more stringent. As a Chinese toy manufacturers should keep abreast of and master the new standards, in order to deal with trade barriers unhurried.

Cause injury and recall the standard case update
1. Filling the water yo-yo Water-filled yo-yo because of the following potential hazards:
1) When the head rotates around the elastic cord and may extend the neck;
2) is not expected because the strength of rubber and adhesive nature of the child can not help themselves without the immediate release of their own;

3) the average strength of the air lock cylinders rotating line for children is 7.1N.

So many toy importing countries to implement a water-filled yo-yo recall. The following is part of the recall case:

2003, the French government decided to stop the sale of water-filled yo-yo and request automatic recall (RAPEX notification 8019/03); 2004, Lithuania recalled due strangulation risk of water-filled yo-yo (RAPEX notification 0383/04 ).

2005, the Austria for the same reason a similar recall of products (RAPEX notification 0311/05).

2. Magnet Toys According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's investigation, to June 2005 a total of 34 incidents of small magnets, which caused four serious accidents with death:

1 20-month-old boy in swallow the magnet winding and cause intestinal obstruction risk to death; 3 3 ~ 8 years of age intestinal perforation required surgery and special care patient treatment; a five-year-old children require surgery Remove the two magnets from the lungs.

Many distressing incident caused injury to the importing country the government of national importance toys, ASTM take the lead on an earlier version of toy safety standards be modified to prevent similar incidents from recurring injuries, to protect the safety of children.

The difference between the new version of the standard
ASTMF963 standard than the 03 old compared to 07 new major has seven changes, in addition to the above-mentioned water-filled yo-yo and magnet toys, but also involves the packaging film, sound toys, riding toys, rope and rubber tendons, hemispherical parts, dynamic testing products and testing program.

The following is the new standard in 07 of these toy products and testing the new requirements of the project brief:

1. On the requirements of water-filled yo-yo

Toy end of the mass greater than 0.02 kg (0.04 pounds) Rope length should be less than 50cm