. /.WORLD TRADE
ORGANIZATIONG/TBT/N/TTO/6
6 March 2001
(01-1086)
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original:  English
NOTIFICATION
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.
1. Member to Agreement notifying:   TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):           
2. Agency responsible:   Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, e-mail and web-site
addresses, if available) of  agency or authority designated to handle comments
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:           
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X], 2.10.1 [    ], 5.6.2 [    ], 5.7.1 [    ], other:           
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading.
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):   Toys (ICS:  97.200.50)
(HS:  9503.90)
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:   S a f e t y  o f  T o y s  –
Part 3: Migration of Certain Elements (21 pages, in English)
6. Description of content:   This part of TTS/ISO 8124 specifies maximum acceptable levels
and methods of sampling and extraction prior to analysis for the migration of the elements
antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromi um, lead, mercury and selenium from toy
materials and from parts of toys, except materials not accessible (see TTS/ISO 8124-1).
Maximum acceptable levels are specified for the migration of the elements listed in 1.1
from the following toy materials:
- coatings of paints, varnishes, lacquers, printing inks, polymers and similar coatings 
(see 8.1);
- polymeric and similar materials, including laminates, whether textile reinforced or
not, but excluding other textiles (see 8.2);
- paper and paper board, up to a maximum mass per unit area of 400 g/m2
 (see 8.3);
- natural or synthetic textiles (see 8.4);
- glass/ceramic/metallic materials, exceptin g lead solder when used for electrical
connections (see 8.5)
- other materials, whether mass-coloured or not (e.g. wood, fibreboard, hardboard,
bone and leather) (see 8.6);G/TBT/N/TTO/6
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- materials intended to leave a trace (e.g. the graphite materials in pencils and liquid
ink in pens) (see 8.7);
- pliable modelling materials, including modelling clays, and gels (see 8.8);
- paints to be used as such in the toy, including finger paints, varnishes lacquers,
glazing powders and similar materials in solid or liquid form (see 8.9).
For the purposes of this part of TTS/ISO 8124, the following criteria are considered
appropriate in the categorization of toys which can be sucked, licked or swallowed:
- all intended food/oral contact toys, cosmetic toys and writing instruments
categorized as toys;
- toys intended for children up to six years of age, i.e. all accessible parts and
components where there is a probability that those parts or components may come
in contact with the mouth (see Annex D).
Toys and parts of toys which, due to their accessibility, function, mass, size or other
characteristics, obviously exclude any hazard du e to sucking, licking or swallowing, bearing
in mind the normal and foreseeable behaviour of children, are not covered by this part of
TTS/ISO 8124.
Packaging materials are not included unless they are part of the toy or have
intended play value (see Annex D).
7. Objective and rationale, including the na ture of urgent problems where applicable:
Compulsory status has been recommended to prevent fraud, deception, misleading labelling,
inferior products (toys) and to give adequate information to the consumer or user.
8. Relevant documents:   TTS/ISO 8124-3: 2000 – Safety of toys – Part 2:  Migration of
certain elements.
9. Proposed date of adoption:
Proposed date of entry into force: }On a date to be notified by the Minister towhom responsibility for trade and industry isassigned in a Notice to be published in the
Trinidad and Tobago Gazette as required by
the Standards Act.
10. Final date for comments:   20 April 2001
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ X] or address, telephone and fax
numbers, e-mail and web-site addresses, if available of the other body: