EN 16779-2:2022

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-maj-2024
Tekstilni izdelki za otroke - Varnostne zahteve in preskusne metode za prešite
odeje za otroško posteljico - 2. del: Prevleke za odeje (razen prešite odeje)
Textile child care articles - Safety requirements and test methods for children's cot
duvets - Part 2: Duvet covers (excluding duvet)
Textile Artikel für Säuglinge und Kleinkinder - Sicherheitstechnische Anforderungen und
Prüfverfahren für Kinderbettdecken - Teil 2: Bettdeckenbezüge (ausgenommen
Bettdecken)
Articles textiles de puériculture - Exigences de sécurité et méthodes d’essai pour les
couettes pour lit à nacelle - Partie 2 : Housses de couette (excluant les couettes)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 16779-2:2022
ICS:
97.160 Tekstilije za dom. Perilo Home textiles. Linen
97.190 Otroška oprema Equipment for children
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EN 16779-2
EUROPEAN STANDARD
NORME EUROPÉENNE
July 2022
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 97.160; 97.190
English Version
Textile child care articles - Safety requirements and test
methods for children's cot duvets - Part 2: Duvet covers
(excluding duvet)
Articles textiles de puériculture - Exigences de sécurité Textile Artikel für Säuglinge und Kleinkinder -
et méthodes d'essai pour les couettes pour lit à nacelle Sicherheitstechnische Anforderungen und
- Partie 2 : Housses de couette (excluant les couettes) Prüfverfahren für Kinderbettdecken - Teil 2:
Bettdeckenbezüge (ausgenommen Bettdecken)
This European Standard was approved by CEN on 13 June 2022.

CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this
European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references
concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CEN
member.
This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by
translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management
Centre has the same status as the official versions.

CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and
United Kingdom.
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worldwide for CEN national Members.

Contents Page
European foreword . 3
Introduction . 4
1 Scope . 5
2 Normative references . 5
3 Terms and definitions . 6
4 General . 9
5 Requirements and test methods .10
5.1 Mechanical hazards (see B.3) .10
5.1.1 Suffocation hazards (see B.3.1) .10
5.1.2 Entrapment hazards (ischaemia see B.3.2) .10
5.1.3 Choking hazards (see B.3.3) .11
5.1.4 Entanglement hazards (strangulation - see B.3.4) .12
5.1.5 Hazardous edges and projections (see B.3.5) .12
5.1.6 Ingestion hazards (see B.3.6) .13
5.2 Chemical hazards (see B.4) .13
5.2.1 Migration of certain elements .13
5.2.2 Formaldehyde .14
5.2.3 Flame retardants .14
5.3 Thermal hazards hyperthermia and hypothermia (see B.5) .15
5.3.1 Requirements .15
5.4 Flammability and burning hazards (see B.6) .15
5.5 Hygiene hazards (see B.7) .15
5.5.1 Requirements and methods .15
6 User information .15
6.1 General .15
6.2 Marking .16
6.3 Purchase information .16
6.4 Instruction for use .16
6.5 Plastic packaging .17
Annex A (informative) Inherently safe design .18
Annex B (informative) Rationale .21
Annex C (informative) Specific marking, purchase information and user instruction .28
Bibliography .29

European foreword
This document (EN 16779-2:2022) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 248 “Textiles
and textile products”, the secretariat of which is held by BSI.
This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an
identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by January 2023, and conflicting national standards shall
be withdrawn at the latest by January 2023.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national standards body.
A complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CEN website.
According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organisations of the
following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia,
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland,
Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North
Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and the United
Kingdom.
Introduction
This document has been written to support EN 16779-1 Textile child care articles – Safety requirements
and test methods for children's cot duvets - Part 1: Duvet (excluding duvet covers) and to be used in
conjunction with it.
EN 16779-1 was written as a response to the European Commission Mandate N° M/497, under the title
“Standardisation mandate to CEN, CENELEC and ETSI on the safety of child-care articles; Cluster 2- risks
in the sleeping environment; Mattresses for cots, cot bumpers, suspended beds for children, duvets for
children sleep bags for children”.
The aim of this document is to minimize the main risks posed by products in the sleep environment of
babies and young children, such as:
— internal asphyxiation (choking);
— entrapment;
— hyperthermia (overheating);
— entanglement (strangulation);
— external asphyxiation (suffocation);
— flammability;
— injuries due to falls;
— injuries due to ingestion of small parts;
— injuries due to chemicals.
For the development of this document, attention was paid to:
— the child’s stages of development (age, height, weight, ability, etc.). Cot duvet covers were studied in
relation to children up to 3 years of age;
— the intended or foreseeable use of the product, bearing in mind a child’s behaviour. Such behaviour
exposes children to injury in ways that differ from those of adults, making children a particularly
vulnerable group in society;
— the hazard presented by the product in the circumstances under which the product and the child
come into contact with each other.
IMPORTANT — In order to comply with the safety requirements, this document is hazard based.
As this document only deals with a particular textile child-care article, i.e. removable cot duvet
covers, design characteristics have been specified only when necessary in order to introduce
inherently safe design. These characteristics have been specified in a manner which allows
compliance to be checked by interested parties, from designers to market surveillance authority
officers.
1 Scope
This document specifies requirements for the safety of removable cot duvet covers, used in the child’s
sleeping environment (i.e. not under supervision), and designed to envelop a cot duvet when sleeping in
a cot or similar product (e.g. crib/cradle) in which a child is contained. This document specifies
requirements for removable cot duvet covers suitable for children up to 36 months.
The requirements for cot duvets are covered in EN 16779-1.
Some of the requirements in this document are not suitable for articles used by hospitals when nursing
sick children. These include:
— openings for access for tubing to the patient or monitoring devices to monitor the patient;
— use of fastenings which may not be durable to industrial laundry processing used by hospitals.
If a part of the cot duvet cover is designed to offer additional functions (e.g. play function), in addition to
the following requirements, this part will be subjected to safety requirements related to relevant
standards (see B.1).
2 Normative references
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
EN 71-3:2019+A1:2021, Safety of toys - Part 3: Migration of certain elements
EN 1103:2005, Textiles - Fabrics for apparel - Detailed procedure to determine the burning behaviour
EN 16711-2:2015, Textiles - Determination of metal content - Part 2: Determination of metals extracted by
acidic artificial perspiration solution
EN 16732:2015, Slide fasteners (zips) - Specification
CEN/TS 17394-1:2021, Textiles and textile products - Part 1: Safety of children's clothing - Security of
attachment of attached components to infants' clothing - Specification
EN 17394-2:2020, Textiles and textile products - Part 2: Safety of children's clothing - Security of
attachment of buttons - Test method
CEN/TS 17394-3:2021, Textiles and textile products - Part 3: Safety of children's clothing - Security of
attachment of metal mechanically applied press fasteners - Test method
CEN/TS 17394-4:2021, Textiles and textile products - Part 4: Safety of children's clothing - Security of
attachment of components except buttons and metal mechanically applied press fasteners - Test method
EN ISO 105-E01:2013, Textiles - Tests for colour fastness - Part E01: Colour fastness to water (ISO 105-
E01:2013)
EN ISO 6330:2021, Textiles - Domestic washing and drying procedures for textile testing (ISO 6330:2021)
EN ISO 14184-1:2011, Textiles - Determination of formaldehyde - Part 1: Free and hydrolysed formaldehyde
(water extraction method) (ISO 14184-1:2011)
EN ISO 17226-1:2021, Leather - Chemical determination of formaldehyde content - Part 1: Method using
high-performance liquid chromatography (ISO 17226-1:2021)
ISO 105-F10:1989, Textiles — Tes
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