QIMA’s accredited labs are fully equipped to provide a wide variety of testing services for Childcare and Nursery products to international requirements.
QC Tailored for the Nursery and Childcare Industry
Nursery and childcare products include a variety of items that help people navigate the first few years of parenthood while ensuring their infant’s health, safety and comfort: from pacifiers and baby bottles, to high chairs, prams and strollers. Any brand, retailer or manufacturer catering to this sensitive market must hold product safety as their utmost priority. Safety fails of nursery and childcare products can mean more than reputational and financial damages to the brand: they can result in injury, life-long disability or even death of your youngest consumers.
QIMA is fully accredited to help you ensure the quality and safety of your nursery and childcare products, including:
Prams, carriages, strollers and other wheeled child conveyances
High chairs, chair mounted seats and booster seats
Infant carriers (handheld, soft, frame)
Carry cots and stands
Baby walking frames
Cribs, cradles and children’s cots
Drinking equipment for children
Dummies and pacifiers
Stationary activity centers
Nursery and Childcare Products Testing Expertise
QIMA’s quality control and quality assurance programs are designed to ensure that your nursery and childcare products comply with all requirements of your destination market and exceed your buyers’ expectations.
Our experts can advise you on designing custom testing programs for your specific products and markets, which can include any combination of the following:
Risk Assessment and Design Evaluation
Regulatory Compliance Tests
Chemical and Analytical Tests
Physical and Mechanical Tests
Performance and Reliability Tests
Labeling Requirements including warnings
Our tests for nursery and childcare products, conducted by product safety experts, include:
Torque/Tension
Drop/Impact
Phthalates content
Seam strength
Sharp points/edges
Tipping resistance
Lead content
Entrapment Performance
Small parts
Static load test
Stability test and overload
Childcare and Nursery Product Testing to International Standards
Our fully accredited laboratories will help you ensure compliance with every aspect of product quality and safety for your destination market:
International standards for nursery and childcare products:
ISO 9221-1, Furniture – Children’s High Chairs
ISO 9221-2, Furniture – Children’s High Chairs
US standards for nursery and childcare products:
16 CFR 1216, Infant Walkers
16 CFR 1225, Handheld Infant Carriers
16 CFR 1226, Soft Infant and Toddler Carriers
16 CFR 1227, Carriages and Strollers
16 CFR 1230, Frame Child Carriers
16 CFR 1231 High Chair
16 CFR 1237 Booster seat
ASTM F2012, Stationary Activity Centers
ASTM F2050, Hand-Held Infant Carriers
ASTM F2236, Soft Infant and Toddler Carriers
ASTM F2549, Frame Child Carriers
ASTM F2640, Booster Seats
ASTM F404, High Chairs
ASTM F833, Carriages and Strollers
ASTM F977, Infant Walkers
ASTM F1004 Expansion gates and expandable enclosures
ASTM F2194-16 & 16 CFR 1218 Bassinets and Cradles
EU standards for nursery and childcare products:
EN 1130: Cribs and cradles
EN 1273: Baby Walking Frames
EN 13209: Baby Carriers
EN 14350-1: Drinking Equipment for Children
EN 1466: Carry Cots and Stands
EN 16120: Chair Mounted Seats
EN 1888: Wheeled Child Conveyances
EN 716: Children’s Cots and Folding Cots
EN 14372 - Cutlery and feeding utensils.
EN 1400 - Child use and care articles - Soothers for babies and young children -Child use and care
EN14988 - High Chair
EN 12586 - Soother holder & Consumer Goods (Babies’ Dummies and Dummy Chains)
EN 12790 - Reclined cradles
EN 12221- Changing units for domestic use
EN 16232 - Infant Swings
EN 12227 - Playpens
Australia and New Zealand standards for nursery and childcare products:
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