Toys, Nursery and Children's Products
UL understands that total confidence in toy, nursery and children's product quality and safety is essential to brand acceptance. With unmatched industry expertise and active involvement in the development and revision of international safety standards, we are able to identify hazards early in the design process, and can help customers throughout every phrase of the manufacturing cycle.
The services UL offers to the toy, nursery and children's product industry include the following:
- Design evaluations and safety assessments
- Human factors evaluations
- Reasonable testing programs
- Chemical management
- Toxicological risk assessments
- Restricted substance evaluations
- Sensory and consumer studies
- Label evaluation and verification
Our engineers, chemists, microbiologists, auditors, inspectors and behavioral scientists can assist with every aspect of toy production:
- Mechanical and physical testing
- Construction and workmanship
- Stability and durability
- Load and overload capacity
- Testing for small-part choking hazards and sharp point and edge assessments
- Impact, torque, tension and compression assessments
- Testing for flammability of solids and flashpoint of volatile materials
- Testing for heavy metal content of surface coatings
- Testing for toxins in packaging
- Assessments of antimicrobial effectiveness
- Quality and defect inspection services
UL is registered with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) as an accredited laboratory for the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) third-party testing, and our worldwide laboratories perform testing to international, federal and state regulatory standards, including California Proposition 65 (Legislation AB 2901 Chapter 575).
We hold Notified Body status under the EU Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC and the EU Low Voltage Directive.
