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The European Commission Decision 2013/121/EU of March 7th, 2013 outlines new safety requirements to be met by European standards for certain seats for children such as: chair mounted seats, children’s chairs, children’s high...

A new Commission Regulation has been published on 14 December 2012 in the Official Journal of the European Union1 that included new Ecodesign requirements for LED and directional...

California’s Safer Consumer Products Act (“California Green Chemistry Initiative”) was signed into law in 2008 and the implementation rules have been under development for several years.

In May 2007, Russia opened discussions to join the OECD Convention on combating bribery of foreign public officials in international business transactions.(1) Since then, several legislative changes related to anti-corruption have occurred.(2) The last...

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has recently adopted the same guidelines as already established for lead to determine inaccessible components for phthalates but with additional considerations for PVC or other plasticized materials in...

The Ministry of Agriculture in Germany conducted safety tests on milk over the weekend March 2nd – 3rd after it emerged that thousands of farms had given animals feed contaminated with high levels of the carcinogenic aflatoxin B1.

On 21 February 2013, the CPSC formally approved methods CPSC-CH-E1001-08.3 and CPSC-CH-E1002-08.3, both of which allow the use of X-ray fluorescence (XRF) as a means to test children’s products for lead.(1)  Method E1001-08.3 (2) describes testing...

Seafood products are under heavy scrutiny following the discovery of contamination in supply chains and products being fraudulently mislabeled.

Product recall in short Product recalls happen in every single type of industry. They can be related to problems in the production or stem from the raw material used.

SGS India's largest laboratory and facility has been officially opened by Chris Kirk, CEO, SGS Ltd. in December 2012. Located at Ambattur, Chennai, the facility houses multiple state-of-the-art laboratories along with inspection and audit services.