Valencia supported the elaboration of the first European guide to chemical safety in children's products
on June 1, 2011
The director-general of the Impiva, Daniel Moragues, has attended the presentation of a tool designed to manage chemical risks of the children's products where pointed out that "defend the quality and safety of the toy is to defend a particular creditor consumer's protection" in the technological Institute of the toy (Aiju).
This is the first European guide of these features will give the manufacturers in the sector an overview of possible substances "criticism of control" in the most common raw materials in the manufacture of children's products such as plastics, paints and textiles.
It will also help them to make decisions regarding the analysis of its products according to the REACH regulation and to the European directive of safety of the toy for manufacturing, marketing and use of chemical substances in the European market.
The European toy safety directive will not enter into force until June 2011, but this initiative already using more than one hundred companies in the sector, Aiju wants that their businesses are at the forefront and anticipate a legislation.
Moragues pointed out that this tool has been funded by the Impiva with more than 300,000 euros at the time pointed out that "if something characterises the toy Valencian is by its commitment to quality products and insurance".
