Tested to EN71 and ASTM F963 —
and the report comes with the quote.
Buyers in the EU and the US cannot list a children's craft kit without the paperwork behind it. Rather than making you ask three times, we send the report for the exact kit you are sourcing together with the quotation.
Mechanical & physical
Sharp edges, small parts, cords and pull strength — the failure modes that hurt a child and get a listing pulled.
Flammability
Burn rate of the materials in the kit, tested in the form the child actually handles them.
Migration of elements
Heavy-metal migration — lead, cadmium, mercury and the rest — from every component a child can mouth.
US toy safety
The American consumer safety specification for toy safety, the standard your CPC rests on for the US market.
Need the report for a specific kit? Send the kit name and the destination market — we reply with the matching report, usually the same working day.
Request a report →What arrives with the quotation
- The lab report for that kit. Not a generic certificate for the factory — the report issued for the configuration you are buying.
- Component and material declarations. What each part is made of, so your own compliance file has a source.
- Artwork and age-grading review. Age mark, small-parts warning, language and importer block checked before the box goes to print.
- A sample built the way it ships. The tested configuration and the shipped configuration are the same, because the sample is built from production components.
How a change triggers a retest
A report covers a kit as specified. Swap a bead supplier, change a dye lot, add a battery holder, and the tested configuration no longer matches what is in the carton. We flag that before production, not after a customs hold.
When a change does trigger testing, we quote the lab cost separately and in advance, so it never appears as an unplanned line on the invoice.
Where the boundary is
Two limits worth knowing before you brief your compliance team:
- Per kit, per configuration. Reports are issued against a specific kit and material set. They are not blanket coverage of the whole catalogue.
- Cosmetic items follow cosmetic rules. Nail art, bath bombs and lip products sit under cosmetics regulation, not the toy standards above. We tell you which regime applies to which SKU when you enquire.
CE marking and the US Children's Product Certificate are issued by the party placing the goods on the market — normally the importer or the brand. What we supply is the test documentation and declarations behind those documents. See who signs what →
Writing your import file? Tell us the market and the kit family, and we will list exactly which documents you can expect from us.
Ask a compliance question →CE, CPC and REACH — who actually signs what
Three documents get mixed up in every sourcing conversation. Here is the honest split, so you know what arrives from us and what stays with you.
EU marking
What it is: a declaration that the kit meets the Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC. There is no such thing as a "CE certificate" — a lab cannot issue one.
Who signs: the manufacturer or EU importer placing it on the market — usually your brand.
From us: the EN71 reports, component and material declarations, and the technical-file inputs your Declaration of Conformity points at.
US children's certificate
What it is: the Children's Product Certificate required by CPSIA, resting on third-party testing at a CPSC-accepted lab.
Who signs: the US importer or domestic manufacturer, not the overseas factory.
From us: the ASTM F963 and CPSIA test reports, plus the component documentation that certificate is built on.
EU chemicals file
What it is: SVHC declarations for the materials inside the kit, separate from toy safety testing.
Who signs: the supplier of each component, chained up to us.
From us: supplier declarations per material, on request with the quotation.
Buying under your own brand? Tell us at enquiry who the importer of record will be — it decides which parts of the file we can sign and which sit with you.
Ask about your market →Questions buyers ask about paperwork
Can I see a report before I place an order?
Yes. Send the kit name and destination market through the enquiry form and we send the report before any commitment. If you are comparing suppliers, ask each one for the report for the exact SKU — a factory-level certificate is not the same document.
Do you test every kit in the catalogue?
Testing is per kit and per configuration. Tell us which kits you are considering and we confirm which reports already exist and which would need to be raised for your order.
What about the UK and Canada?
The UK mirrors EN71 under its own toy safety regulations, so an EN71 report is the starting point. Canada has its own toy regulations — say so on the enquiry and we will confirm what is needed for that destination.
Who pays for testing on a new kit?
For a new configuration the lab cost is quoted upfront and separately, based on the number of components and colours. It is never bundled silently into the unit price.
Send the kit, get the report
Name the kit and the market. We reply with the matching report, the packaging requirements for that market, and a price — within one working day.
Request the report