To assess the health effects of TCEP in toys and the appropriateness of Directive 2009/48/EC's generic limits for TCEP as a CMR substance, the Commission sent a request for an opinion to the Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER). In its opinion, adopted on 22 March 2012 and entitled ‘Opinion on tris (2-chloroethyl) phosphate (TCEP) in toys’, SCHER notes that health effects (in particular kidney effects) have been observed after repeated exposure to 12 mg of TCEP/kg body weight per day. SCHER also notes that the TCEP content found by the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (Danish EPA) in toys (0,5-0,6 %), as reported in the Danish EPA's ‘Survey and risk assessment of perfume and flavours in toys and childcare articles. Survey of chemical substances in consumer products’, corresponds to a risk for children, even without considering other exposures. When considering TCEP exposure from other sources than toys (e.g. air, dust), SCHER concludes that no additional exposure from toys can be considered as safe, and recommends setting the limit for TCEP in toys at the detection limit of a sufficiently sensitive analytical method.