ICS 97.200.50                          PCD 12

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard (Part 5) which is identical with ISO 8124-5 : 2015 ‘Safety of toys — Part 5: Determination of total concentration of certain elements in toys’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Plastics Sectional Committee and approval of the Petroleum, Coal and Related Products Division Council. 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 2 Flammability

Part 3 Migration of certain elements

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

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

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.