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 Revision to the Order for Enforcement of the Consumer Product Safety Act  and the 
Ministerial Order on Technical Requirements for Specified Products Concerning the 
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry  
 
December  2022 
Product Safety Division,  
Industrial and Product Safety Policy Group  
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry  
 
1. Purpose  of the revisions  
Under the Consumer Products Safety Act , "Specified Products"  are Consumer Products 
that are found to be highly likely to cause harm particularly to the lives or health of general 
consumers in consideration of these products' structure, material qualities, and usage, etc ., 
They are specified by Cabinet Order  to regulate the manufacture and the sale of th ese 
products.  
In recent years , product incidents caused by “Recreational goods made of magnets 
(which are generally called magnetic toys )” and “Toys made of water -absorbing synthetic 
resin”  have occurred due to infants accidentally ingesting th ose products .  
According to reports from the Consumer Affairs Agency and others, cases of deaths 
due to accidental ingestion have been reported overseas. Although the National Consumer 
Affairs Center and the Consumer Affairs Agency have alerted  consumers  to those products , 
the situation has not changed.  
Since there are no legal safety regulations for th ose products , it is necessary not only 
to alert consumers but also to implement sales regulations  by specifying those products 
as Specified Products in this Act in order to prevent accidents by ensuring basic safety , so 
we will revise the Act  to newly designat e them as "Specified Products " and the Ministerial 
Order to specify the technical requirements for those two types of products . 
2. Summary  of the revisions  
We will revise the Order for Enforcement of the Consumer Product Safety Act  to 
designate “Recreational goods made of magnets” and “Toys made of water -absorbing 
synthetic resin”  which have the risk of accidental ingestion  as "Specified Products".  2 
 In addition to th is, we will revise the Ministerial Order on Technical Requirements for 
Specified Products Concerning the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry  to specify the 
technical requirements for those products .  
3. Schedule  
Proposed d ate of adoption : March  2023 
proposed d ate of entry into force : May 2023 
 
 