European foreword

This document (EN 71‑17:2025) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 52 “Safety of toys”, the secretariat of which is held by DS.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by August 2025, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by August 2025.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

This document has been prepared under a standardization request addressed to CEN by the European Commission. The Standing Committee of the EFTA States subsequently approves these requests for its Member States

For relationship with EU Legislation, see informative Annex ZA, which is an integral part of this document.

Additional information on the background and rationale for various requirements are given in Annex A.

This document constitutes the 17^th part of the EN 71 series of standards on safety of toys.

EN 71 , Safety of toys, consists of the following parts:

— Part 1: Mechanical and physical properties
— Part 2: Flammability
— Part 3: Migration of certain elements
— Part 4: Experimental sets for chemistry and related activities
— Part 5: Chemical toys (sets) other than experimental sets
— Part 7: Finger paints — Requirements and test methods
— Part 8: Activity toys for domestic use
— Part 10: Organic chemical compounds — Sample preparation and extraction
— Part 11: Organic chemical compounds — Methods of analysis
— Part 12: N-Nitrosamines and N-nitrosatable substances
— Part 13: Olfactory board games, cosmetic kits and gustative games
— Part 14: Trampolines for domestic use
— Part 15: Formamide in foam toy materials (content) (under development)
— Part 16: Certain chlorinated phosphorus flame retardants (TCEP, TCPP, TDCP) in toy materials (under development)
— Part 17: Certain isothiazolinones (MIT, CIT, BIT) in aqueous toy materials (under development) (the present document)
— Part 18: Phenol in aqueous (content) and polymeric (migration) toy materials (under development)
— Part 19: Migration of bisphenol A from toy materials (under development)
— Part 20: Microbiological safety of toys containing accessible aqueous media (under development)

It is up to the user of the standard to determine whether or not a toy is included in the scope of several of the above parts of the EN 71‑series, and to apply each applicable standard accordingly. Normative references from one part of the EN 71‑series to another, are therefore normally not provided in the individual parts.

NOTE 1 In addition to the above parts of EN 71, the following deliverables have been published:

— CEN/TR 15071, Safety of toys — National translations of warnings and instructions for use in theEN71series,

— CEN/TR 15371(all parts), Safety of toys — Interpretations,

— CEN/TR 16918, Safety of toys — Children's mouthing behaviour in contact with toys,

— CEN/TR 17695, Safety of toys - Mechanical and physical properties — Guidance on categorization of projectile toys withinEN 71‑1,

— CEN/TS 17973, Safety of toys - Categorization of slime type materials, and

— CEN ISO/TR 8124‑8, Safety of toys — Part 8: Age determination guidelines.

NOTE 2 Words in italics (apart from document titles) are defined in Clause 3 (Terms and definitions).

Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national standards body. A complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CEN website.

According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organisations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and the United Kingdom.

BS EN 71-17:2025

Safety of toys - Certain isothiazolinones (MIT, CIT, BIT) in aqueous toy materials

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Published:

28 Feb 2025