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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11461

6 January 2016
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) consumers
Commission consulting on amount of toy materials ingested by children

Brussels, 05/01/2016 (Agence Europe) - A public consultation will continue until the middle of February on the preliminary scientific opinion published by the Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER) on 21 December on estimates of the amount of toy materials ingested by children.

The review covered three types of materials in toys, with a view to possible revision of maximum migration limits which are currently 100 mg/day for brittle, powder-like or pliable toy...