How far away is the "lead"-free paint from your baby

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Recently, in the media conducted in Beijing family children's room decoration needs survey, in the face of the selection of building materials when the most concern, more than 90% of parents said they chose the environmental protection of materials. As a large area of the whole house painted paint, its environmental protection is one of the most focused attention, children's paint is also in recent years by parents sought after children's special building materials category. Most consumers pay attention to benzene, VOC, etc. in coatings, but ignore lead content. At present, heavy metal pollution has become a topic of common concern in the world. Lead is one of the most toxic heavy metal pollutants known, with strong cumulative and irreversible. How harmful is lead paint? Has lead-free paint appeared in the domestic market? When will the national standard for children's paint be issued?
Children are susceptible to exposure to lead paint
The United Nations Environment Programme reports that about 143,000 people die each year from lead poisoning or ingestion of lead paint, and about 600,000 new children with intellectual disabilities are exposed to lead each year. Lead poisoning has been the number one threat to the global environment and children's health. The Guangzhou CDC surveyed 2,387 children between the ages of 2 and 12 and found that 60 of them had blood lead levels higher than 100 micrograms per liter and were diagnosed with lead poisoning, accounting for 2.51 percent of the children surveyed.
children have delicate skin, and their internal organs and organs are growing at high speeds. Because of physical development, children's ability to act, the exploration of the heart is strong, all the things around them become the object of hand-grabbing bites. Lead paint is the main trigger for lead poisoning in children. According to WHO, children may be exposed to lead paint through toys, walls, door frames and furniture, and lead-contaminated paint peeled off the surface can also produce lead-contaminated dust that can be inhaled by children.
Sequit attention to the use of lead paint
At the launch of the 'Promoting China's Use of Lead Paints' project in Beijing in April this year, more than 20 leaders and experts from the World Health Organization, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the China Coatings Industry Association and other organizations discussed the project of 'Promoting The Reduction of Lead Paint Use in China', as well as the efforts of the Chinese government and industry associations to reduce and eliminate lead paint. Zhang Shigang, UNEP representative in China, noted that the United Nations adopted the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, which call for scientific management of chemicals and wastes, including lead and lead-containing materials. The issue of lead paint was first raised at the Second International Conference on Chemicals Management in 2009. At the 4th Congress in 2015, the goal of eliminating lead paint by 2020 was set. This is both an opportunity and a challenge for many Chinese paint companies. To support countries in improving their response to the hazards of lead paint, the United Nations Environment Programme has launched a small grant project to 'promote the reduction of the use of lead paint in China', which is to donate a number of lead-free paints to primary schools in poor mountainous areas to promote the environmental protection of lead-free paint by painting schools.
Lead-free children paint is sought after
children sleep more than 12 hours a day, the body is the least resistant to sleep, and the body's growth and development are all done in sleep, breathing by weight ratio, 50% higher than adults. If the living environment is polluted, the child's body is most affected in sleep. Therefore, 'environmental protection' must be the first requirement for children's rooms and activities, which has given birth to a children's paint market designed for children's rooms. At present, Carberry, Dolezal, China Resources, Libang, Mei Tuss, three trees, Fenlin and many other brands and many small and medium-sized enterprises have launched children's paint products, children's paint market gradually heating up, children's paint is also more and more consumers, especially parents of all ages, into more care for the health of ordinary people. In the past two years, unleaded children's paint products have also been born. Beijing Morning Post reporters interviewed two years ago to initiate the concept of lead-free paint, launched Haini baby 2 generations of lead-free antibacterial children's wall paint Guangdong Jiabaoli market leader Huang, Huang general introduction, in the past two years, Carrie unleaded children's paint annual sales are more than 50 million yuan, accounting for more than half of the market share of children's paint market segment.
Children's paint standards are missing in the past
many consumers although love children's paint, but in previous years because there is no unified children's paint standards, consumers on how to judge the environmental performance of children's paint 'no concept', whether consumers buy children's room decoration paint, or paint manufacturers in the promotion of children's room decoration paint, there is no reference to standards, inevitably. The lack of standards for children's paint has also been criticized by the media.
but in 2015, the problem of missing standards was put to an end. In the second half of last year, in order to help consumers better buy children's paint, promote the healthy development of the market, "children's room decoration water-based wood coating" national standards officially issued. And recently issued in China's paint industry '13th Five-Year Plan', also clearly pointed out that the '13th Five-Year Plan' period to be formulated, revised 58 national standards of the project, children's room decoration with internal wall paint the first, has been completed in 2015 declaration, 2017 is expected to be introduced and implemented. To promote the reduction of lead paint use is the general trend, the United Nations and relevant departments of the country to promote the national standards of children's paint will be more and more perfect and strict.
addition to the lack of standards, the name of children's paint is also questioned, the classification of paint products, there is no children's paint category. In fact, with the development of sub-channels, according to the use of the object of the paint is divided into children's paint, pregnant women paint, old people paint is not wrong, which is also the inevitable result of professional division of labor and market development.
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