ICS 97.200.50                          PCD 12

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (Part 2) (Third Revision) which is identical with ISO 8124-2 : 2014 ‘Safety of toys — Part 2: Flammability’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on recommendation of the Plastics Sectional Committee and approval of the Petroleum, Coal and Related Products Division Council.

This standard was first published in 1981 and revised in 1999. Second revision of this standard was carried out in 2012 which was identical with ISO 8124-2 : 2007. The third revision of this standard has been undertaken to align it with the latest version of ISO 8124-2.

The significant technical changes between this standard and its previous version are listed in Annex B (informative) of this standard.

This standard has various parts under general title ‘Safety of toys’. Other parts in this series are:

Part 1 Safety aspects related to mechanical and physical properties

Part 3 Migration of certain elements

Part 4 Swings, slides and similar activity toys for indoor and outdoor family domestic use

Part 5 Determination of total concentration of certain elements in toys

Part 6 Determination of certain phthalate esters in toys and children’s products

Part 7 Requirements and test methods for finger paints

Part 9 Certain phthalates esters in toys and children’s products Further, the Committee has decided to formulate the following new part of this standard which is under preparation:

Part 8 Age determination guidelines

This Standard also makes a reference to the BIS Certification Marking of the product. Details of which are given in National Annex A.

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.