Europe Nickel Release for Children's Jewelry

The children's Jewelry is one of high demand for retailers such as clothes chain store, because the children fashion trend.

Nickel release is used in metal alloy for corrosion resistance. Dermatitis can be occurred if there is long skin contact with nickel.

From REACH Annex XVII in Europe:

Prolonged contact with the skin is defined as contact with the skin to articles containing nickel of potentially more than

• 10 minutes on three or more occasions within two weeks, or
• 30 minutes on one or more occasions within two weeks.

The skin contact time of 10 minutes applies when there are three or more occasions of skin contacts within a two-week time period. The skin contact time of 30 minutes applies when there is at least one occasion within a two-week time period.

• Non-body piercing
  ≤ 0.5 μg/cm²/week limit
  

  Pass if	Fail if
  < 0.88 μg/cm²/week	≥ 0.88 μg/cm²/week

• For body piercing
  < 0.2 μg/cm²/week limit:
  

  Pass if	Fail if
  < 0.35 μg/cm²/week	≥ 0.35 μg/cm²/week