New Zealand Proposed Unsafe Goods (Consumer Sand Products) Notice 2026

The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) of New Zealand proposed the Unsafe Goods (Consumer Sand Products) Notice 2026.

Scope

The Notice is applicable to:

• toys that are, include, or contain sand; and
• decorative, craft or artistic goods that are sand, or that include or contain accessible sand.

Testing Requirements

Each product must be tested for asbestos. The analytical requirements are prescriptive:

• Method: transmission electron microscopy, or a combination of scanning electron microscopy with energy-dispersive X-ray analysis.
• Standard: ISO 22262-2:2026, Air quality — Bulk materials — Part 2: Quantitative determination of asbestos by gravimetric and microscopical methods, incorporated by reference.
• Laboratory: accredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 by an accreditation body that is a signatory to the ILAC Mutual Recognition Arrangement.
• Scope: the method used must fall within the laboratory's accreditation scope.

Documentation Requirements

A test certificate, test report, test result, or equivalent record is required. The record must:

• Be dated no more than 12 months before the goods are imported into, or manufactured in, New Zealand;
• Clearly identify the product or product variant it covers;
• Identify the testing laboratory;
• Specify the analytical method used and the standard applied;
• State the date or date range of testing; and
• State that no asbestos was detected in the samples tested.

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