The Government of Hong Kong put forward the initiative on amending the Toys and Children’s Products Safety Ordinance. The Ordinance contains general and additional safety requirements, provisions for laboratory testing and additional control, and specifies two lists of standards:

1. Toys standards - Schedule 1
2. Product standards - Schedule 2

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The Schedule 2 product list contains the following products and materials that must prove the compliance to the Ordinance to be supplied or imported to Hong Kong:  

• Babies’ dummies
• Baby walking frames
• Bottle teats
• Bunk beds for domestic use
• Carry cots and similar handled products and stands
• Child safety barriers for domestic use
• Children’s cots for domestic use
• Children’s high chairs and multipurpose high chairs for domestic use
• Children’s paints
• Children’s safety harnesses
• Playpens for domestic use
• Wheeled child conveyances

The Government of Hong Kong proposes to update toy and product standards from Schedule 1 and Schedule 2 list correspondingly as follows:

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The information has been prepared by the GMA Consult Group team.‍

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