3618 Formaldehyde

Number Revision Date Assigned Author

QSOP 3618 3.00 2018-12-13 Ying Gao

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1 - SCOPE (3618)

1.1 - Products and Components Covered

1.1.1 - Accessible Fabric

1.1.2 - Accessible Paper

1.1.3 - Accessible resin-bonded wood

1.1.3.1 - Wood that complies with QSOP 5012, Environmental – Wood Products does not need to undergo
further testing per this QSOP.

1.1.4 - Products designed or intended to be physically applied to or introduced into a child's body

1.2 - Exemptions

1.2.1 - Packaging intended to be discarded

1.2.2 - Instruction sheets

1.2.3 - Paper cross-sell items

1.2.4 - Posters

1.2.5 - Inserts in the cases of CDs or DVDs

1.2.6 - All inaccessible materials

1.2.7 - Products intended to be used exclusively by adults

1.3 - Definitions (Words that are defined are italicized and bolded once per section)

1.3.1 - Accessible: Any area of the toy that can be contacted by any portion forward of the collar of the
accessibility probes when inserted to the depth determined in QSOP 3010, Accessibility.

1.3.2 - Fabric: All flat surface and raised-fiber textile materials yarn, ribbons, thread, string, rope and other similar
materials. Vinyl, urethane, or similar materials used as fabric components, including fabric items backed by these
materials.

1.3.3 - Juvenile Products: Products (not toys) used by children such as carriages, full-size cribs, gates, high
chairs, portable hook-on-chairs, strollers and walkers.

1.3.4 - Paper: Material, marketed as either paper or paperboard, with a mass per unit area of 400 g/m2 maximum.

1.3.5 - Resin-Bonded Wood: An engineered wood product made of wood based material and bonded with a type
of adhesive (e.g., plywood, particle board, chipboard, medium-density fiberboard (MDF), etc.).

1.4 - Purpose
To evaluate products for compliance to worldwide safety standards for formaldehyde content.
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 2 - PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS
Performance requirements must be met both before and after all applicable Use and Abuse testing.

2.1 - Accessible fabric and accessible paper must not contain free and hydrolyzed formaldehyde in excess of the
limits specified in Table 1 below.

Table 1 - Formaldehyde Limits by Material

2.2 - Accessible fabric of products sold in Indonesia shall not contain formaldehyde in excess of 20 mg/kg per
ISO14184 -1

2.3 - Verify compliance per GQMP 0006-2122, Formaldehyde Control.

2.4 - Products designed or intended to be physically applied to or introduced into a child's body, for example, finger
paints, shall not intentionally contain formaldehyde or a chemical that under normal conditions would degrade
to release formaldehyde. Toys are exempted from this requirement.

2.4.1 - Verify compliance by checking the ingredients list or bill of substances that the following
formaldehyde and formaldehyde releasers can not be contained.

Substance Name CAS Number

Quaternium-15 4080-31-3 / 51229-78-8

Imidazolidinyl urea (Germall 115) 39236-46-9

Diazolidinyl urea (Germall II) 78491-02-8

DMDM Hydabtoin 6440-58-0

2-Bromo-2-nitropropane-1,3-diol (Bronopol) 52-51-7

(formaldehyde release is not related to mechanism of
action)

5-bromo-5-nitro-1,3-dioxane (Bronidox) 30007-47-7

Tris(hydroxymethyl) nitromethane (Tris Nitro) 126-11-4

Hydroxymethylglycinate (Suttocide A) 70161-44-3

Polyquaterniums 81859-24-7 / 53568-66-4 / 54351-50-7 /

55353-19-0 / 68610-92-4 /
81859-24-7/75345-27-6 / 26590-05-6

3 - PROCEDURE

3.1 - Environment (N/A)

3.2 - Equipment (N/A)

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 3.3 - General Requirements

3.3.1 - Test and evaluate formaldehyde in accessible fabrics per ISO 14184 -1

3.3.2 - Test and evaluate formaldehyde in accessible paper per EN 645 and EN 1541

3.3.3 - Test and evaluate formaldehyde in accessible resin-bonded wood per EN 717-3

3.3.4 - Composite testing is not allowed

3.4 - Method (N/A)

4 - DOCUMENT HISTORY AND SUPPORTING INFORMATION

4.1 - Significance
To set forth Mattel’s requirements for formaldehyde.

4.2 - Reason For Revision (3618)

Section Revision 3.00 Implementation

4 Revised title of section. Editorial

4.3 Updated section to remove previous Editorial

references and replace with a hyperlink to a
Detailed Procedure to Source Document
report in Polarion.

4.4 Added section to identify any Mattel internal Editorial

requirements contained in this procedure.

Section Revision 2.00 Implementation

Adds requirement on finger paints per Minnesota's Applies to products manufactured on and after:
1.1.4 & 2.3
bill February 1, 2017

4.3 - Referenced Documents

The following link contains the source documents and requirements related to this procedure:

Detailed Procedure to Source Document Report

4.4 - Identification of Mattel Internal Requirements
Mattel internal requirements are requirements developed internally to minimize the potential for injuries to children
but are not required by law.

4.4.1 - All requirements in this QSOP are based on regulations. This QSOP contains no Mattel internal
requirements.

5 - FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (None)

6 - ATTACHMENTS (None)

7 - APPENDICES (None)

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