PROSAFE appoints new Executive Director

PROSAFE is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Executive Director with effect from 14 June 2018. Ioana Zlotila has been promoted to the position of Executive Director in place of Nicolaas Olie. Ioana joined PROSAFE in 2010 and became an important part of PROSAFE’s success story since then. Drawing on her years of experience, Ioana will provide fresh insights to PROSAFE day-to-day business and priorities, as PROSAFE continues to transform and grow at an accelerated pace to ensure the delivery of the best value in market surveillance activities across Europe for the benefit of European consumers.

Joint Action 2015: Final Conference

The Joint Action 2015 organises its final conference on the 17th and the 18th of April 2018, at PROSAFE office, in Brussels. This event will be preceded by the PROSAFE General Assembly. Please find below more information regarding the timing:

• PROSAFE General Assembly on 17 April from 11:00 to 12:30;

• JA2015 Conference (closed session) on 17 April from 13:15 to 18:00;

• JA2015 Conference (open session) on 18 April from 08:45 to 17:30.

The full agenda is available here.

Electrical toys

Toys are a class of product of significant importance. In this regard, following a priority-setting exercise carried out within the framework of the Joint Action 2015 (JA2015), the Member States  decided to address the safety of electrical toys. This work will include surveillance activities, product testing, risk assessment of the products tested and eventual action needed to be taken. Appropriate test methods for the other products will be identified as needed depending on the products sampled. 

JA2015 Preliminary results

Toys 4 (Plasticised toys)

Participants in Toys 4 visiting the test laboratory

A number of 255 plasticised toys, mainly plastic dolls, inflatable toys and bath/squeeze toys, have been tested for dangerous chemicals and around 20% of these have failed the tests. The 17 participants in the Toys 4 activity met at the laboratory in Italy to discuss the results.
The chemicals found over the required limit were: phthalates, Bisphenol A (BPA) and short-chained chlorinated paraffins (SCCPs).