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On June 18, 2026, the European Commission released the official findings of JACOP 2025 (Joint Action on Compliance of Products), a targeted EU market surveillance campaign focused on textile and apparel labeling. Coordinated by the Commission’s Directora...

Published by the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Trade (DBIST), Notice 0143/26 was released on 23 September 2026, proposing amendments to the list of designated standards referenced by the UK Toys (Safety) Regulations 2011 (UK TSR, S.I. 2...

An ISO/IEC 17025 measurement uncertainty material testing programme has always rested on the lab's ability to demonstrate fitness-for-purpose of its measurement result. The 2025 revision makes that requirement more explicit, and the transition is the momen...

A working factory audit checklist for cross-border e-commerce brands sourcing from China, Vietnam, and Southeast Asia — covering BSCI, SMETA 7.0, and ISO 9001:2015, with the document list, audit-day script, and the three most common reasons Chinese fac...

Recently, a growing number of Amazon jewelry sellers have reported receiving urgent platform compliance warnings, with a massive wave of children’s jewelry listings triggering Amazon’s DPV (Document Verification Process) audits. Many cross-border m...

A 2026 B2B buyer's guide to ASTM F963 mechanical-safety enforcement on Amazon and TEMU — the same federal floor (16 CFR Part 1250, ASTM F963 sections 4.6/4.7/4.8/4.9/4.10), the September 3 2025 Amazon TIC routing change, TEMU's parallel third-party sam...

A pre-shipment inspection that finds the defects an e-commerce buyer was trying to avoid is not a quality program; it is a record of the failure that already happened. The right program finds the failures before the lot ships, classifies them in a way the ma...

A procurement-side framework for building the 2026 product compliance budget — the seven cost categories (standard-set test fees, per-lot retest allowance, certificate drafting and issuance fees, on-site audit and factory inspection fees, marketplace...

The European Union’s new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (EU) 2025/40 (PPWR) officially entered into force on 12 August 2026, replacing the outdated 94/62/EC Packaging Directive and establishing stricter, unified sustainability and chemical safe...

TL;DR RTS consolidates CPSIA, CE, GB, REACH, and OKEO-TEX testing under one Yiwu lab, compressing the typical 3-to-6-week multi-vendor coordination calendar into a single engagement. Beginning July 8, 2026, the CPSC eFiling rule makes machine-readabl...

On 14 September 2026, the European Commission published Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/2032, amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/740 on the harmonized standards supporting the Toy Safety Directive. The decision formally adds three revised EN 71 standards...

TL;DR Selling toys on Amazon in 2026 means navigating compounding compliance obligations: the CPC testing cycle, the evolving ASTM F963 standard, the EN 71-1:2026 transition, CPSC eFiling in full effect, and the EU TSR 2025/2509 Digital Product Passpo...