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Ref : EIC 111/2/21

17 April 2013

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 294/2013

US : CPSC: Request for Information Regarding Third Party Testing for Certain Prohibited Elements in Children's Products

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued in the Federal Register (FR) of 16 April 2013 a notice requesting information on whether there are materials used in the manufacture of certain children's products that can be determined not to include a prohibited element or chemical such that third party testing is not required. These products and the associated prohibited elements or chemicals are toys (antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury and selenium), toys and child care articles (the phthalates DBP, BBP, DEHP, DnOP, DINP and DIDP), manufactured woods such as particle board, medium-density fibre board and plywood (lead), and synthetic food dyes (lead). Written comments should be submitted by 17 June 2013. Please refer to the relevant FR notice for details:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-04-16/pdf/2013-08858.pdf.

ENQUIRIES

2.For enquiries concerning this circular, please contact the undersigned at telephone number 2398 5682.

Yours faithfully,

(Ms Linda NG)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry