Paint play - Photo by form PxHere (BRUSSELS) - The EU Commission adopted Thursday an amendment to the Toy Safety Directive to limit the presence of aniline, a substance suspected of carcinogenic properties in certain coloured toy materials. The new limits will help significantly reduce children's exposure to this substance, which is a component of dyes for textile, leather and finger paints and can therefore be present in toys. The youngest children could put those in the mouth. The amendment proposes a limit of 10 mg/ kg for aniline found in finger paints, where it exists in free form, and 30 mg/ kg for aniline detected in textile or leather toy material, which is the lowest concentration at which it can be detected with a specialised test to identify the substance when part of other mixtures.