FDA Issues Guidance on Children's Toy Laser Safety Standards
The Food and Drug Administration on Dec. 18 issued guidance on standards for children’s toy laser products while the agency’s own rules are in development. In 2013, FDA proposed a rule to define children's toy laser products and require them…
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to be within the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Class 1 emission limit. While it works on the final rule, FDA is recommending that manufacturers keep children’s toy laser products within the FDA Class I or IEC Class 1 emission limits, it said in the guidance (here). However, because IEC Classes 1M and 2M “do not have comparable analogs in FDA’s classification system,” manufacturers should not conform to these standards unless they also comply with FDA performance standards, said FDA.