EN 16232 Products for use and care of children - Baby rocking chairs

Primary Purpose:

Objective To regulate the design and safety of baby rocking chair, to prevent accidents such as dumping, overturning, suffocation, clipping, etc., and to ensure the physical safety of infants 0-12 months of age (weight  9 kg) during rest and play.

Standard Definition:

EN 16232 is a special safety specification for baby leisure products, the current latest version is EN 16232: 2018, in line with the EU GPSD directive and REACH regulations. It applies to domestic lacquered baby rocking chairs (including electric ones) and does not apply to foldable portable cradles, and is the core compliance standard for the EU market.

Testing and certification requirements： 

The product needs to be fully tested by an EU-recognized third-party laboratory as the basis for CE certification. The core requirements are as follows:

structural safety: the maximum tilt angle of the rocking chair is s 30 °, it is subjected to 150N vertical pressure without dumping, and the lock mechanism has not failed after 500 opening tests.Ant-suffocation and anti-clampingThe minimum angle of the seat back is  10 °, the ventilation performance of the head support surface is up to the standard, and the seat gap must pass the 6cm sphere test,

MateriaI safety: no irritating material in contact with infant skin, lead  90 ppm, cadmium  75 ppm,phthalates  0.1%, no screen brightener,

ldentification requirements: affix a permanent warning label, clearly "0-6 months of infants to be used on the back, the whole care" (font  4mm), marked applicable weight and use of environmental requirements. Meeting the requirements of this standard is a sine qua non condition for the product to be allowed to enter the EU market.