Spectacles are widely used in our daily life, however excessive nickel has adverse effect on people’s health. Therefore, domestic and foreign standards for nickel release control and detection have been promulgated. In this paper, the national standard GB/T 38009-2019, the international standard ISO/TS 24348-2014 and EN 16128:2015 were compared in terms of detection principles, detection methods and technical requirements. The purpose is to make relevant enterprises and testing institutions better understand the standards.