Standards

For us, safe is not safe enough

MAM product development is based on the highest standards of quality and safety. Since the early years of MAM, we have been committed to the highest safety standards for baby products at the EU level. This has enabled us to play a key role in raising product standards not only in Europe but worldwide for the baby industry. Product safety is closely linked to baby health – which is why it is especially important to us. In order to not only comply with the numerous safety standards but also to exceed them, we at MAM set ourselves particularly strict standards. Our MAM quality standards are successfully integrated from the start of every product development process. To date, MAM has had 28 technical inventions protected in 274 patents and has had the design of 54 products and 247 design patents secured. Safety and quality can only be guaranteed through rigorous checks. These are carried out at our MAM in-house laboratory. Our bottles and pacifiers undergo more than 1,000,000 product tests per year with 68 different test methods involving over 12,000 working hours. 

Standards for baby products: safety is in our DNA

Our founder Peter Röhrig has been advocating standardized safety specifications for pacifiers, among other things, since MAM’s early years. In the 80s there were only pacifier standards in individual EU countries and no binding guideline for Austria. This continuous commitment makes Peter Röhrig, and therefore MAM, an expert in the field of product safety. We also brought this knowledge to bear in the development of the first European standards, which were drafted from 1990 onwards. Peter Röhrig was appointed chairman of one of the working groups related to CEN/TC 252, the standard for baby products, and still holds this post today. 

With his involvement the following standards were developed at EU level, and are also being duplicated internationally:

• EN 1400: Standard for pacifiers
• EN 14350: Standard for baby bottles, drinking teats, drinking cups, etc.
• EN 12586: Standard for pacifiers holder
• EN 12868: Standard for stricter nitro-samine limits in baby products
• EN 14372: Standard for cutlery and feeding utensils for babies

Quality assurance at MAM

At MAM we have developed our own quality process that goes above and beyond international standards. To do this, our in-house laboratory brings together all the standards in use worldwide for comparison, and then ensures that our MAM standard exceeds these minimum requirements.

MAM Baby products awarded

A great, though unofficial, award for our products is the very low rate of complaints. We have been able to reduce this from 68 to 12 per million products since 2014. But our products have also received numerous official awards, most recently in 2019 with the EU Product Safety Award. This award, which is presented by the European Commission, honors companies that have integrated safety into their core business and who go beyond EU norms and guidelines with their standard processes. 

Learn more at MAM Quality & Safety

We feel very honored to have received this prestigious award from the European Commission as the first and only company in its category.

Peter Röhrig

MAM Founder

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