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CPC for magnetic tiles

Magnetic tiles designed or marketed to children 12 and under are children’s products: they need third-party testing at a CPSC-accepted laboratory and a Children’s Product Certificate citing magnet, small-parts, lead, and phthalate rules, plus tracking labels on the product and packaging. The importer or US manufacturer issues the CPC — marketplaces can request it at any time.
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Which rules apply to magnetic tiles

  • Magnetic building tiles test for magnet security (sealed inside the tile housing), lead and phthalates in the tile body and colors, small-parts behavior after drop and abuse, and magnet strength clauses from the toy standard.
  • CPSIA section 101 total lead content in accessible substrate materials.
  • 16 CFR part 1303 lead in paint and surface coatings where painted or coated.
  • CPSIA section 103 tracking labels: manufacturer, location, and date of manufacture on product and packaging.

The testing and certification path

Testing covers magnet containment — separated magnets are the ingestion hazard that drove magnet-toy enforcement — plus housing integrity after impact, lead in prints and colors, and phthalates in any plasticized components.

Book testing at a laboratory that is CPSC-accepted for each rule, issue the CPC in your own name citing the rules your report supports, and keep the certificate with its test report for at least five years. Marketplaces ask for the pair, not the certificate alone.

Questions people ask

Why are magnets the biggest risk in these tiles?

If a magnet escapes the housing and a child swallows two, they attract through tissue and can cause fatal injuries. The toy standard’s magnet clauses and your housing design are the entire product’s safety story.

Do I test every tile shape and color?

Test each housing size and each colorway’s materials — different molds and pigments are different test subjects even within one set.

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