Press Releases

SGS is amalgamating its existing cybersecurity capabilities into Digital Trust Services, offering world-class services to manufacturers across all market segments, and especially to manufacturers of connected medical devices or smart consumer products. Read more...

Taiwan updates its mandatory inspection standard for children’s raincoats, reducing the prescribed phthalates down to six from eight. Read more...

New York State enacts a ban on the sale of crib bumper pads and restricts their use in certain public settings. Read more...

New Hampshire has introduced restrictions on the use of flame retardants in residential upholstered furniture. Read more...

SGS launches its new International Type Approval (ITA) Restricted Substance Service Solution, providing manufacturers and importers of electrical and electronics (E&E) products with a one-stop solution to restricted substance compliance.Read more...

Anchorage, Alaska, has codified an ordinance to regulate flame retardants in certain consumer products. Read more...

Taiwan’s BSMI issues updated version of CNS 15290 safety requirements for textile products, which redefines the scope of limitation in relation to some substances. Read more...

The US state of Illinois has introduced a ban on BPA in thermal paper that will come into effect on January 1, 2020.Read more...

SGS provides Europe's first diaper and feminine protection product softness measuring service at its laboratory in Oignies, France. Read more...

SGS has announced two webinars in September 2019 to help toy manufacturers understand EU regulations, standard EN 71-3:2019, and phthalate and chemical restrictions.Read more...