Children'S Clothing Rope Can Kill Shanghai'S First Risk Warning

< p > this directive has greatly increased the requirements for the safety and quality of chemical properties and electrical properties of toy products. The heavy metal detection items have increased from 8 to 19 items, and 55 new banned and 11 restricted allergic substances have been detected.

Behind the strict standards is the close guard against the risks of toy products.

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< p > a small part of the toy, a string or a fatal killer on the cap.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced last month that it had voluntarily recalled 560 Chinese Deezo brand children's coats last month because of the possible damage done by the a target= "_blank" href= "http://www.91se91.com/" hat.

Although the products have not received any accident reports, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission has received more than 20 reports of deaths due to rope entanglement of various brands of children's clothing.

A 5 year old girl choked to death on a slide on the school jacket due to a rope trip on her jacket hat. A 14 year old boy was crushed by a wheel when he was caught in a car with a long pull cord on his jacket.

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< p > according to incomplete statistics, in 2012, China exported to the European Union, the United States and Canada, < a target= "_blank" href= "http://www.91se91.com/" > textile < /a > a target= "_blank" href= "_blank" > clothing < < > products were recalled 225, because of rope safety recall 172, accounting for 76.4% of textile and clothing recall cases.

To this end, the city's quality and technology supervision department recently issued the first quality risk warning for children. It is recommended that parents take all the caps and neck cord of children's coat.

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< p > and in fact, the safety of a rope is far from that.

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< p > < strong > the risk of many products is ignored. < /strong > < /p >

< p > "our country's use of ropes and straps for children's clothing is not without standards, but because it is a recommended standard, the production enterprises do not pay enough attention, and the tape and rope are still used frequently in children's clothing products."

Lai Xiaoyi, director of the supervision department of the quality and Technical Supervision Bureau, told reporters that after paying attention to this risk source, the Quality Supervision Department collected 62 batches of children's clothing samples from the main shopping malls and production enterprises in the city. The samples of the 59 batches of samples did not meet the requirements, and the experts rated them as medium risks.

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< p > in reality, many product risks exist outside people's understanding.

For example, with mobile phones, MP4, digital cameras, tablet computers and other portable electronic products entering thousands of households, mobile power is rapidly gaining popularity in the digital market.

However, there is no product standard for mobile power, and most of the batteries used in mobile power sources are lithium ion batteries which are very active in chemistry.

In addition to burnout the two serious problems of mobile phones and spontaneous combustion, the problem of low power consumption and repeated charging after several times of electricity has become the focus of consumer complaints.

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< p > compared with traditional toys, laser toys are more playable and appreciable, and laser pens, laser hands, guns and so on are selling well.

Can parents know that when children play with laser beams, the high-energy laser can cause severe burns or damage to the children's retina, which can eventually lead to congestion, edema, loss of vision and even blindness? < /p >

< p > < strong > standard lag warning should not be absent. < /strong > < /p >

< p > the EU's new toy safety directive has been implemented. We should also carefully consider and carefully evaluate the design of toys and whether the materials meet safety standards.

During the open inspection day of toy inspection held by the third party inspection and certification organization, Rhine technology Shanghai company, the parents took the initiative to check 30 toys.

According to the European Union standard, 6 of the 30 samples were found unqualified, and the problem of substandard products included: misuse of the certification mark; the seam cracks of plush toys resulted in the exposure of the fibers inside; the weight of children's scooter handle was poor; the plasticizer of the bathtub toy "yellow duck" exceeded the standard.

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China is the largest toy producer and exporter in the world. It is also a big consumer country. 75% of the world's toys are made in China. P

"There are many differences between domestic and international standards for the same toy products," Wang Bo, manager of toys and children's products Department of Rhine technology Shanghai company, told reporters. For example, Germany and other countries have clearly defined the PAHs, total cadmium and other indicators of toys, but domestic standards are not yet included.

Most of the technology used in Rhine is exported to the European Union for testing and certification of toy products. It has encountered many times that domestic enterprises are ready to deliver goods, but the products are not qualified enough to export.

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P lagged behind the standard lag, which is a major reason for product risk.

Last year, the bathtub toy "little yellow duck" became the focus of social attention because of its excessive plasticizer. When plasticizer met hot oil or bath oil and other oily substances, it was easy to release. Many children liked to "bite" a few "little yellow duck" when taking a bath, which was bad for children's growth and development.

"However, the national standard for toys," toy safety technical specification ", does not contain the limit of two phthalate esters plasticizers in China.

Relevant experts said.

Fortunately, the limit of plasticizer has been increased in the draft national standards for toys currently being revised after risk monitoring.

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< p > "in a sense, standards are always lagging behind, but early warning must not be absent."

Insiders pointed out that more than 10 years ago, people may still be satisfied with the corresponding functions of products. Now the safety problem is getting more and more attention, and the early warning of product risk is more valuable.

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< p > < strong > eliminating the risk means is still weak. < /strong > /p >

< p > "in recent years, energy saving lamps such as electromagnetic radiation, LED blue light damage and blending gasoline, which are social concerns, are all risk problems that are not regulated by domestic standards, inconsistent with domestic or foreign standards or hidden rules of industry. The traditional quality supervision mode has been difficult to solve problems," Lai said.

In this regard, the quality supervision department of the city set up the first national product quality and safety assessment center in July 2009 to carry out product risk monitoring and early warning. It included monitoring and warning for a number of products, including children's car, < a target= "_blank" href= "http://www.91se91.com/" > shoes < /a > category, universal mobile socket, automatic paper shredder, energy saving lamp, mobile phone charger, hair dryer and so on.

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< p >, then, how to eliminate the product risk after the early warning? Lai Xiaoyi said that the assessment center will make scientific judgement after finding the source of product risk and report the monitoring results to the AQSIQ, modify the standards for those without product standards, and recommend domestic recommendation standards as mandatory standards or introduce advanced foreign standards to eliminate risks fundamentally.

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< p > "but this is a gradual process. In fact, the means of eliminating risks after early warning are still weak."

Lai Xiaoyi told reporters that after the discovery of product risk sources, the quality supervision department will convene a meeting of the city's production enterprises to inform the enterprises, and require the enterprises to rectify and recall defective products. The enterprises involved in other provinces and cities will notify the geological supervision department, but this "nanny type" technical service has not attracted enough attention from enterprises.

"What needs to be clear is that the main body responsible for eliminating or reducing the risk of product quality and safety is still an enterprise."

Insiders pointed out.

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< p > in addition, it is also one of the means of eliminating public product quality and safety risk early warning to remind consumers to pay attention to the safety risks of products when purchasing and using related products, so as to take protective measures to reduce the possibility of injury.

Whether product risk early warning can guide scientific cognition through institutional information release, and then guide consumers to vote with feet, forcing enterprises to fulfill the main responsibility of product safety effectively, we need to wait and see.

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