Standard and Regulations

The European Committee for Standardization (CEN) officially published the revised version of EN 12492:2025 Mountaineering equipment.

Understand outdoor furniture QC standards and third-party inspection processes to reduce risks, prevent defects, and protect your brand.

EN 12492 is the European standard for mountaineering and climbing helmets, which has been adopted for work-at-height and rescue helmets as well.

Quality control and quality assurance are both part of the QMS. QC focused on fulfilling quality requirements, while QA focused on providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled.

On 29 October 2025, CEN issued EN 71-7:2025 Safety of toys - Part 7: Finger paints - Requirements and test methods.

Discover the ISTA packaging test standards. Learn how ISTA ensures safe transit and protects your products.

Explores the details of the carton drop test, explains ISTA requirements, and highlights how third-party quality inspections procedure carton drop test.

On Aug 21, 2025, CPSC approved a final rule 16 CFR 1250.4 for water bead toys, setting new safety and labeling requirements to protect children.

Footwear imported or manufactured in the United States must comply with regulations, standards, substance restrictions, labeling, and testing requirements, with additional rules applying to protective and children’s footwear.

The China has published two mandatory standards GB 30585-2024 - Safety technical specifications for infants' and children's footwear and GB 25038-2024 - General safety requirements for footwear on May 28, 2024.