GB 46523-2025 General safety requirements for children’s products English, Anglais, Englisch, Inglés, えいご
1 Scope
This document specifies the general safety requirements for children's products and describes the corresponding test methods.
This document is applicable to products (including trial and gift products) designed or intended for use, play and wear by children 14 years of age or younger.
This document is not applicable to the following:
—— Children's medicines;
—— Children's cosmetics, and daily chemical products for children managed with reference to the Regulation on the Supervision and Administration of Cosmetics;
—— Children's food;
—— Amusement facilities used in public places that the Regulations on Safety Supervision of Special Equipment applies;
—— Sports facilities and teaching aids;
—— Children's medical device products;
—— Fireworks.
Note: the hygiene requirements for the products that come into contact with food are not included in the scope of this document.
2 Normative References
The following documents contain requirements which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
GB/T 2912.1 Textiles - Determination of formaldehyde - Part 1: Free and hydrolyzed formaldehyde (water extraction method)
GB 6675.2 Safety of toys - Part 2: Mechanical and physical properties
GB 6675.4 Safety of toys - Part 4: Migration of certain elements
GB/T 7247.1 Safety of laser products - Part 1: Equipment classification and requirements
GB/T 17592 Textiles - Determination of the banned azo colourants
GB/T 19941.1 Leather and fur - Determination of formaldehyde content - Part 1: High performance liquid chromatography method
GB/T 19941.2 Leather and fur - Determination of formaldehyde content - Part 2: Colorimetric method
GB/T 22048 Determination of certain phthalate esters in toys and children’s products
GB/T 29614-2021 Vulcanized rubber - Determination the content of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
GB/T 41413 Determination of migration of N-nitrosamines and N-nitrosatable substances in toys - High performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
GB/T 41524 Determination of short chain chlorinated paraffins in toy materials - Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
GB/T 46509 Determination of the emission of volatile organic compounds in toys
3 Terms and Definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.
3.1
children's products
products designed or intended for use, play, and wear by children 14 years of age or younger
3.2
normal use
use of products according to the instructions for use, or in a traditional or customary, obvious way of use
[Source: GB 6675.1-2025, 3.12, modified]
3.3
reasonably foreseeable abuse
use of products by the methods that are not recommended by the supplier but may occur in normal circumstances, including children’s normal free behavior, such as combining the products
Examples: twisting, pulling, removing, dropping, or using by non-recommended methods.
[Source: GB 6675.1-2025, 3.13, modified]
3.4
harm
physical damage or other damage to health, including long-term effects on health
[Source: GB 6675.1-2025, 3.8, modified]
3.5
hazard
potential source of harm
Note: term "hazard" may be defined as the cause or nature of a foreseeable harm (e.g., electrical shock hazard, folding clamping hazard, shear hazard, poisoning hazard, fire hazard, and drowning hazard)
[Source: GB 6675.1-2025, 3.9]
3.6
risk
probability that a certain hazard will cause harm will occur and the severity of the harm
[Source: GB 6675.1-2025, 3.10, modified]
3.7
accessible
in normal use by children, parts or components of children's products are accessible by any part in front of the shaft shoulder of an accessible probe described in GB 6675.2
3.8
opening
hole or gap formed by continuous or discontinuous edges
3.9
detachable/removable component
parts or components of children's products that are intended to be removable without the use of tools, such as screwdrivers, coins, or other objects
3.10
ball
spherical, olive-shaped, or oval object usually but not completely designed or intended to be thrown, slapped, kicked, rolled, thrown, or bounced
Note 1: This definition includes balls attached to a toy or object with a string, elastic cord or similar tether and any polyhedral, spherical, olive-shaped, oval-shaped, novel and small object designed or intended to be used as a ball attached to a plane
Note 2: This definition does not include dices or balls permanently enclosed in a pinball game machine, labyrinth or similar container. The ball is considered to be permanently closed if it does not come out of the container when tested for reasonably foreseeable abuse according to GB 6675.2.
[Source: GB 6675.2-2025, 3.6, modified]
Contents
Foreword i
Introduction ii
1 Scope
2 Normative References
3 Terms and Definitions
4 Requirements
4.1 General requirements
4.2 General
4.3 Mechanical and physical properties
4.4 Thermal hazard and flammability
4.5 Chemical safety
4.6 Electrical safety
4.7 Radiation safety
4.8 Explosion hazard
4.9 Product marking
5 Testing methods
5.1 General provisions
5.2 Peculiar odor test
5.3 Small parts test
5.4 Small ball test
5.5 Opening test
5.6 Movable part gap test
5.7 Sharp edge test
5.8 Sharp point test
5.9 Tensile test of protective device for hazardous projection
5.10 Test of fixed rope loops and lassos
5.11 Leakage test of liquid filled toys
5.12 Sound pressure level measurement
5.13 Thickness test of plastic films and sheets
5.14 Migrable element test
5.15 Plasticizer test
5.16 Formaldehyde test
5.17 Harmful aromatic amine test
5.18 Migrable N-nitrosamine and N-nitrosamine precursor test
5.19 PAHs test
5.20 Short-chain chlorinated paraffin test
6 Implementation of standard
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