China's Plush Toys Exports Should Be Vigilant Against Three Major Safety Risks

Toys are entertainment products for children to play. Because children's self-protection awareness is not sound enough, they belong to a group of vulnerable groups. The safety and quality of toys directly affect children's health and safety, and many toys cause harm to children. Also fully proved this point. Therefore, all countries in the world attach great importance to the safety and quality of toys. In recent years, toy recalls have continued to occur, making toy safety once again the focus of attention. Toy importing countries have increased the requirements for the safety and quality of toys, and have also introduced or updated technical regulations and standards on toy safety.


The outstanding performance in the United States in recent years has been the greater impact of the "Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act" HR4040, the EU's new "Toy Safety Directive" 2009/48/EC, in addition, Germany, Canada, Russia, Australia and other countries have also formulated The technical regulations of toy products, other countries and regions have also established similar toy safety technical and regulatory requirements with the above-mentioned countries. With the introduction and implementation of new foreign toy safety technical regulations, each country’s entry barriers to toy safety are year by year. Promote.

China is the world’s largest toy producer and the world’s largest toy exporter. About 70% of the toys in the world come from China. As foreign technology barriers to China’s children’s products are becoming increasingly severe, China’s toy exporters are facing The pressure and challenges are increasing day by day. Because the production characteristics of plush toys are labor-intensive hand-made, low technical content, it is inevitable that there are some quality problems. Every year, a considerable portion of Chinese toys are encountered in foreign notification recalls due to various safety and quality issues, and nearly 50% of them are plush toys.


The possible problems or risks of export plush toys can be summed up in the following aspects:


First, the risk of unqualified mechanical safety performance.


Second, the risk of unqualified health and safety.

Third, chemical safety performance requirements failed risk. In recent years, the requirements for chemical safety performance in toy products have been continuously upgraded in various countries. The United States and the European Union are the two major markets for toy exports in China, accounting for more than 70% of the total toy exports each year, and the “US Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act” HR4040. : In 2008, the "European Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC" was successively introduced, which has enabled China's toys entry thresholds to increase year by year, including the most strict "EU Directive on Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC". It was fully implemented on July 20, 2013. The four-year transition period for the requirements for chemical safety performance of the Directive has passed, and the chemical safety performance requirements for the first time implemented in the Directive have explicitly prohibited and restricted toxic and hazardous chemical substances from increasing by eight. To 85 species, the first ban on the use of more than 300 kinds of nitrosamines and carcinogenic, gene mutations, affect fertility and other substances.


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