There is a new rule for exporting ceramics, the European Union will increase the standard of lead and cadmium(2009/11/27)

Recently, the EU made an emender on the 84/500/EEC statement.

The new directive on the porcelain and ceramic products which is producted and marketing in the European Union, possibly in contact with food products, should be accompanied by producers and distributors to provide a written statement, indicating the final products porcelain manufacturers and EU importers of identity and address; porcelain products features ; date and the statement meet the relevant requirements. The new directive on the instrumental analysis and the detection limits of lead and cadmium were revised from the standard 4.0 mg / l, 0.3 mg / l to 0.2 mg / l, 0.2 mg / l, thereby enhancing the market for such products entering the EU threshold.

Enterprises generally worried about the next few years, the technical problems are to difficult to break, ceramics exports will face serious difficulties. Industry analysis, the United States in order to prevent a large number of Chinese ceramics for daily use to enter repeatedly to set up technical barriers, the EU imported ceramics for daily use increased the threshold, so that the standard is higher than the United States, is likely to lead to more domestic ceramics for daily use are sold to the United States, which cause the United States on China's Ceramics Limited standards and improvement requirements.
(by China Leiyuan, 2009/11/27)