- CE certification of building blocks toys
Children’s building blocks are also toy products, but they are leisure and educational children’s toys, which can develop children’s thinking. Now many parents like to buy such educational toys for their children to help their children grow. Children’s building blocks are made of wood and plastic, and some will be coated with a layer of transparent glue on the outer layer, which contains harmful substances. Long-term exposure may affect the healthy growth of children due to their weak resistance. Therefore, this type of product needs to be tested and determined to meet the safety standards before it can be sold!
- Toy testing, simply speaking, it is wooden toys made of wooden materials, which are divided into pure wooden toys, synthetic toys and wooden auxiliary toys.
What are pure wooden toys, synthetic toys and wooden auxiliary toys?
Pure wooden toys, such as: hand-carved items.
Synthetic wooden toys such as plywood puzzles.
Wooden auxiliary toys, such as: wooden inertia car.
Toy CE certification
- CE certification and testing of wooden toys
EN71-1 Partial Physical and Mechanical Properties Test
EN71-2 Partial Burn Test
Migration detection of specific elements in EN71-3 part
EN71-4: 1990＋A1 Toy Safety
EN71-5 Toy Safety – Chemical Toys
EN71-6 Toy Safety Age Sign
EN71-7 refers to the requirements of painting pigments
EN71-8 for indoor and outdoor home entertainment
EN71-9 Flame Retardants, Colorants, Aromatic Amines, Solvents (Inhalable)
Fourth, the physical test of wooden toys:
This is just a quick run to use with your own research.
(1) Foam Test – For toys under 36 months old with glue: 4x 10 min soak soak for 10 min, shake and dry for 10 min wooden2 and repeat, check that nothing has fallen off the toy (spots are ok, the coating is not ) – this test should be done before other physical tests
(2) Sharp edge/spot check – do this after each test.
(3) Torque test: rotate 180 degrees or 0.34n for 10 seconds, then repeat counterclockwise,
(4) Tension test: on the same toy part as the torque test – to 90n
(5) Drop test (for smaller toys): drop the toy from a height of 90 cm on a steel plate with a silicon coating (or similar surface), tilt it so that the most likely parts to break hit the surface.
Large, bulky toys can skip a drop test and instead undergo an overturn test.
(6) Impact test: place a 1kg weight on the most fragile part of the toy once;
(7) Compression test: If there is a part of the toy that cannot be entered during the impact test, the compression test needs to be completed with a pressure of 110 Newtons, by slowly increasing the pressure and holding for 10 seconds, a 30mm disc weight should be used;
- What to check with wooden toys
Check toys are safe – all toys sold in this country and in the EU should have a CE mark on them somewhere, either on the wooden toy itself or on the label or packaging, which indicates that the toy has passed the basic Safety requirements to enable it to be sold in the UK, although it is not a wooden toy safe consumer mark.
Look for the lion mark – this marks the toy maker as a member of the British Toys and Hobbies Association. Anyone who displays a lion mark on a wooden toy agrees to produce a toy that meets certain quality standards as well as safety requirements.
- Suitable wooden toys for the right age
Not all toys are created equal, and traditional toys you buy for older kids can provide hours of fun, younger siblings can be at risk from choking on small parts if the toy is left around . Always follow the advice on age warning labels, especially if the label warns that wooden toys are not suitable for anyone under 36 months.
Seven, children’s building blocks for CE certification process:
Step 1: Apply to fill in the application form, apply for the company information form, provide product information and send samples.
Step 2: The engineer judges the children’s building blocks and then classifies and quotes.
Step 3: The payment applicant confirms the quotation, signs the contract, makes payment, and provides samples.
Step 4: The testing laboratory conducts a full set of tests on the applied product according to the relevant EU testing standards
Step 5: The test is passed, and the report is completed.
Step 6: The project is completed and CE certificate is issued.