There is no legal requirement for this in the EU that I am aware of. However, it's usually a condition of supply for most large retailers so in practice nearly all products sold have such warnings on the bags they are contained in. In these circumstances, I guess 'the authorities' have not felt it necessary to actually mandate a requirement (not that this ever stopped them in the past, but I digress...)
The only standard I am aware of which covers this is BS 1133-21. (There will be others in other countries, I am sure, but I don't know what they are - if anyone knows what they are then I'd be interested to hear from them). BS 1133-21 is not a complete safety specification. In the absence of a coherent standard, I wrote our own specification for bag markings and I'll be happy to send you a copy if you'd like me to. At the time, products complying with our spec would certainly meet the requirements of all of the major retailers with whom we were working at the time. Regards Nick. At 08:31 -0700 16/10/07, Shawn Singh wrote: >Hello All, > >I believe there is a requirement that requires to have a safety >sticker on plastic bags above a certain size warning that childrens >could suffocate themselves with these bags. > >Do you know the size of a bag that would require such a sticker and >the text required ? > >Thanks in advance, > >Shawn > - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned by MCI Managed Email Content Service, using Skeptic(tm) technology powered by MessageLabs. For more information on MCI's Managed Email Content Service, visit http://www.mci.com. ______________________________________________________________________
