Toys are childhood friends of all children and play an important role, so parents should carefully select reliable toys for their children. Currently, the toys on the market are mostly made of plastic. A few days ago, China's Guangdong Quality and Technical Supervision Bureau conducted risk monitoring on children's toys. The staff inspected 90 batches in the production and circulation field, and found that 38 batches of samples had quality and safety problems of various degrees.
Most of the defective samples produced sharp points or small parts that were dropped under reasonably foreseeable abuse.
Another 4 batches of product were plasticized with phthalates Agent content exceeds the standard, reaching the limit of the latest toy standard.
30 batches of toy volatile organic compounds failed
Children are relatively insensitive to unsafe factors and have little self-protection awareness. As a result, they are easily damaged by defective toys. There are a large number of cases of children being injured by toys each year.
In the children's toy industry, plastic toys deserve attention due to the large production and variety of plastic toys, and secondly, hand-recycled materials are of poor quality. The quality and safety problems of this type of inferior children's toys are more prominent. Their typical quality and safety issues include:
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The hardness and strength of inferior plastic toys is not enough. It will lead to such consequences, the toy is easy to be crushed or broken, and it is easy to have small parts or fragments falling, and there is a danger of being swallowed by children. At the same time, the damaged parts produce sharp points, which are easy to of injuring children. Caught fingers;
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During the process of recycling and dissolving plastic waste, volatile organic compounds in the solvent can easily remain in the finished toy. For example, some plastic toys sold by street vendors in open spaces have a typical pungent odor. If children are exposed to these toys for a long time, they can cause chronic damage to them.
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To improve the physical properties of repeatedly recycled materials, manufacturers may add excessive amounts of plasticizers, leading to excessive use of plasticizers. Pose a potential chemical hazard.
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Painting inferior plastic toys can be dangerous. It will cause the coating to fall off easily and the toxic heavy metals are beyond the safe range.
When parents choose toys for their children, it is recommended to ensure the quality of plastic toys and keep the receipt or invoice at all times. In order to protect children's health and safety, please refuse to buy inferior and low-priced toy products, and stay away from toys sold by unlicensed sellers.
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