Jiangsu sampling children's furniture pass rate of only 30% solid wood brush varnish is relatively reliable

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Jiangsu sampling children's furniture pass rate of only 30% solid wood brush varnish is relatively reliable
Now parents to their children to add furniture, will be carefully selected, choose professional children's furniture. But is professional children's furniture really safe? Yesterday, Jiangsu Provincial Quality Supervision Bureau released the quality supervision of children's furniture product quality spot checks and risk monitoring quality analysis report. Test results show that the sampling of 131 batches of children's furniture only 30% qualified, and online shopping of children's furniture is "the whole army covered up", none of them qualified. What's wrong with these children's furniture? How do parents pick when buying children's furniture? Look at the quality supervision experts one by one to demystify. Correspondent Xu Gang Modern Express reporter Zhu Wei / Wen Xuyang / photo
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sampling pass rate of only 30% of online shopping products "all over the army
The main problems of non-conforming furniture are non-conforming in terms of warning marking items, structural safety, formaldehyde release, heavy metal content and technical performance.
quality supervision staff sampled the manufacturer, market sales and network e-commerce platform three channels, market sales sampling covers Nanjing, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Changzhou, Wuxi and other cities. Specifically, the production enterprises sampling of children's furniture pass rate is higher, can reach 85.2%; Pull the overall pass rate "back legs" the most is the network e-commerce platform sales of children's furniture, pass rate of 0, that is to say, online sampling of children's furniture "all over the army", none of them qualified.
Xuzhou City Product Quality Supervision and Inspection Center Light Industry Department engineer Fang Zhengjie said that online shopping products "the whole army covered up" for several reasons, online shopping products consumers can only see pictures and introductions, can not be from the physical to carry out simple quality judgment, and online shopping products need to use low prices to attract consumers, so quality can not be guaranteed. "Online sales of children's furniture sources can not be guaranteed, some small manufacturers of fish and dragon mixed, some use cheap raw materials, some in the processing process in order to save costs leading to quality but off." Experts suggest that it is best not to buy children's furniture online, it is recommended to buy regular brand products in regular shopping malls.
qualified items
60% of products lack warning signs children's furniture purchase to be divided into age groups
In fact, according to national standards, children's furniture must be clearly identified in the instructions for use of applicable age groups, such as "3 to 6 years old", "under 3 years of age" or "over 7 years of age". If consumers are required to install it, write, "Note! Only adult installation is allowed, children are not close."
not only that, but there are also clear signs in some locations where children's furniture is at risk, such as: "Warning! Be careful of clip wounds." If it is a swivel chair with a lifting pneumatic rod, it must also state "Danger!" Do not frequently lift the words "play" and so on.
not only do many consumers not understand the national standards, often do not pay attention to these signs when buying, even some enterprises are not clear about the product warning requirements. "Manufacturers don't have enough subdivisions, subconsciously think that children's furniture is a scaled-down version of adult furniture." Fang Zhengjie said, in fact, there is no warning label for children to use the product, there is a risk of misuse.
holes are prone to pinching fingers at the edge of the tip is dangerous
children's furniture and adult furniture have a big difference, is structural safety. Children are very dynamic, do not know how to fully protect themselves, if the furniture is not safe, it is easy to cause harm. Therefore, in addition to considering the normal function, the national standard also for children's furniture edges and tips, protruding objects, holes and gaps, folding mechanisms, flipping, flipping doors and other aspects of specific requirements.
this sampling, the structural safety of 64 batches, nearly 50%. Children's furniture 1.6 meters below the ground, are the children may come into contact with the location, if there are some dangerous outer corners, should be rounded treatment, but this time 30% of the products did not do so.
holes in the furniture are at risk of caught in the child's fingers, so the holes and gaps in the children's furniture should be less than 6mm, making it impossible for the child's fingers to reach in, or greater than 12mm, so that the child's fingers can be easily pulled out. This time more than 20% of children's furniture can't do that. At the scene, Fang Zhengjie tried to insert 6 mm and 12 mm thick experimental tools into the furniture hole, the former can be inserted, the latter can not be inserted, just that the hole diameter between 6 to 12 mm, it is likely to clip the child's fingers.
In addition, some children's tables have a flip-board structure, the standard stipulates that the flip-off force should be greater than or equal to 8 Newtons, otherwise the child can open the flip-top, but when closed will get stuck or clip the child. Products with this problem also accounted for 9.2 per cent.
stability of the cabinet is not careful to dump crushed children
the stability of children's furniture is a problem that is often overlooked because it is not easy to see easily. In this sampling, only 1 batch of furniture stability is not qualified, but there is a great risk. This is a small cupboard similar to a bedside table with two drawers up and down.
, according to the standard requirements, they put 4 kg of objects in the upper drawer, 1 kg of objects in the drawer below, and open the upper drawer completely. In this case, the cabinet is prone to tip-over, which means that the stability of the cabinet is not qualified.
if the child opens the cupboard drawer himself, the cupboard collapses and it's easy to crush the child, " he said. Fang Zhengjie reminded parents to be careful when buying furniture. In addition to the cabinet will be dumped, if the drawer can be drawn out, there is also the risk of injury to children, national standards require that drawers should be able to pull off, but this test, there are more than 20% of the products have this problem.
formaldehyde, heavy metal harm solid wood furniture are both qualified
children's furniture and adult furniture, are likely to encounter "indoor pollution" problems, so formaldehyde release and heavy metal content also have clear requirements. Heavy metal over-standard children's furniture a total of 5 batches, accounting for 3.8%, are lead-exceeding. Heavy metals come mainly from the color paint on the outside of the furniture. Heavy metal lead is harmful to children and can affect their growth and intellectual development. Suzhou City Product Quality Supervision and Inspection Institute of the work and home inspection room engineer Xia Jin said that lead exceeding the standard may be enterprises in order to reduce costs, the use of heavy metals over the standard of poor quality

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also had 23 batches of children's furniture with excessive formaldehyde releases, accounting for 17.6 per cent of the total. Formaldehyde release of the highest amount of furniture reached 11.2mg/L, 7 times over the standard.
of formaldehyde is well known. Captain Xia Jin said that formaldehyde release capacity may not be small manufacturers, no factory inspection or false factory inspection, may also be to reduce costs, the use of poor quality raw materials, may also be mishandled in the production process or the use of formaldehyde exceeding the standard adhesive,
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Fang Zhengjie pointed out that from the test results, solid wood children's furniture in formaldehyde release and heavy metal two items, are fully qualified, than board children's furniture is much more reliable.
Risk Monitoring
Be careful of toxic solvent residues
it is best to choose only varnish products
In addition to the mandatory national standards clearly required items, the quality supervision department also carried out risk monitoring of solvent residue projects. The monitoring results showed that 56 batches of product solvent residue exceeded the standard, and the highest solvent residue was detected to 681 mg/m2, more than 60 times exceeding the standard limit requirements of 10 mg/m2. Among them, there are also a lot of children's furniture benzene, toluene, xylene residue total exceeded the standard, some samples of the residue comprehensive exceeded the standard dozens of times, the highest value can reach 409mg/m2.
consumers may not know how dangerous these solvent residues are. Captain Xia Jin introduced that solvent residue is the furniture surface paint processing process, the use of solvents and thinners into a large number of organic solvent residues. "Solvent residues mainly include benzene, toluene, xylene, ethyl acetate, butyl ketones, butyl acetate, ethanol, isopropyl alcohol and so on." He said some of these solvents are toxic to varying degrees, some can even cause cancer, or may lead to other irreversible toxicity, and some are low toxicity.
, at present, most of the children's furniture on the market using paint coating treatment, which is the main cause of children's furniture solvent residue. Moreover, some artificial plate children's furniture in the paint before painting putty treatment, test results found that the sample solvent residue after putty treatment is high, "the quality of paint directly affects the solvent residue of furniture."
Fang Zhengjie said that according to the test results, consumers would be better off only brushing simple varnish solid wood children's furniture, this furniture solvent residue, formaldehyde, heavy metals and other risks will be much lower.
Consumption Reminder
Children's Furniture
Shop and Use Tips
1. For products without warning signs, no brand models, no age group labels, no instructions for use, you should avoid purchasing them.
2. When shopping, look carefully at the edges, tips, or protrusions, as well as the holes and gaps for the risk of scratching a child's finger.
3. It is recommended to choose furniture products with less or no paint, and children's furniture treated with a small amount of varnish is relatively safe.
. When children's furniture is first purchased, it should be placed in the ventilation area for a period of time, which is conducive to the distribution of formaldehyde in children's furniture and volatile harmful substances in paint.
. When using children's furniture, parents should warn children not to suck the surface of furniture with their mouths, to avoid harmful substances into the body, causing risks to children's health.