Testing Requirements
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Chemical Items |
Controlled Items |
Requirements |
| Lead | Substrate: 100 mg/kg; Coating: 90 mg/kg | |
| Cadmium | 75 mg/kg | |
| Extractable Cadmium | Plastic small parts: 75 mg/kg; Metal small parts: 200 μg | |
| Cadmium saline extraction | 18 μg | |
| Nickel Release | Piercing type: 0.2 μg/cm²/week Long-term contact with skin: 0.5 μg/cm²/week | |
| Seven Soluble Heavy Metals (Coating) | Cadmium: 75 mg/kg, Mercury: 60 mg/kg Chromium: 60 mg/kg, Arsenic: 25 mg/kg Selenium: 500 mg/kg, Antimony: 60 mg/kg Barium: 1000 mg/kg | |
| Phthalates | 8P: DEHP/ DBP/ BBP/ DINP/ DIBP/ DCHP/ DPENP/ DHEXP, each should not exceed 1000 mg/kg. | |
| Physical Items | Sharp Points and Edges | Children's jewelry for those under 8 years old shall not contain accessible dangerous sharp points and dangerous sharp edges. |
| Small Parts | Children's jewelry for those under 3 years old shall not contain small parts. | |
| Hazardous Magnets (Magnetic Flux ≥ 50KG2mm² and are small parts) | (1) For those under 8 years old: After normal use and reasonably foreseeable abuse tests, there shall be no hazardous magnets or hazardous magnetic components; (2) For those 8 years old and above: If there are hazardous magnets or hazardous magnetic components, a warning statement is required. |
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| Fracture Release Force | After a 15-pound tensile force test, it can be disconnected, and no physical hazard factors shall be released. Exemption: Children's jewelry with a perimeter less than 9.4 inches | |
| Battery Requirements | (1) Before and after the abuse test, batteries that are small parts should not be accessible without using any tools; (2) When the battery is replaceable, it should be marked: New and old batteries cannot be used together; Alkaline batteries, standard (carbon-zinc) batteries, or rechargeable (nickel-cadmium) batteries cannot be used together and other similar information; (3) For non-replaceable batteries that are accessible, relevant instructions or markings should be added; (4) Battery-powered children's jewelry should be designed in such a way that it is impossible to charge non-rechargeable batteries (except button batteries); (5) The battery polarity should be permanently marked in the product label or instructions. |
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| Tongue Studs for Inhalation | Shall not contain | |
| Label Requirements | Age Label | Affix an age label |
| Other Recommended Warning Slogans | Warning slogans for the embedded piercing parts of earrings | |
| Jewelry with Filled Liquids | Filled Liquid Requirements | (1) It shall not contain substances specified in 16CFR 1500.231 and 16CFR 1500.14 (materials requiring special marking instructions); (2) If the jewelry contains cosmetics, the cosmetics need to meet USP51&61&62; (3) If the jewelry contains other liquids, pasty substances, putties, gels, powders (except cosmetics), it needs to meet USP61&62. |






