China’s first national standard for children’s furniture, General Technical Conditions for Children’s Furniture, has been in operation for more than half a month. The reporter visited a number of furniture markets in the city yesterday and found that the vast majority of children's furniture has reached new standards, but there are also furniture stores still selling unqualified products.
The new regulations combine two major standards of wood furniture and children's furniture.
“The first children's furniture standard is for children aged 3 to 14 years. It combines the two general standards of “General Technical Conditions for Wood Furniture†and “National Toy Safety Technical Specificationsâ€, and puts forward higher requirements based on the standard of log furniture. The quality inspection experts of the Municipal Quality Inspection Institute told reporters yesterday that the new standard stipulates that the edge of the edge of the furniture must be rounded to prevent children from hitting the bump; the height is less than 1.6 meters, the glass parts cannot be used, and the size of the hole of the furniture Can't get a finger. In order to prevent children from hiding in the furniture for too long and suffocating, the new national standard requires that the cabinet-type closed furniture used by children should have a certain ventilation function.
"In addition to the safety requirements, the new standards have greatly improved the environmental protection requirements, and adopted environmental indicators for children's toys." According to him, the wooden furniture standard only requires toxic and hazardous substances such as heavy metals and formaldehyde. The new national standard controls the toxic and harmful substances such as formaldehyde content, pH value and color fastness. Among them, the newly added "maximum limit value of carcinogenic aromatic amines is 20mg/kg", which is also smaller than the standard of 30mg/kg set by the European Union in 2002. “These new regulations are not only for the original paint coating, but for the surface materials of children's furniture, such as plastics, textile fabrics, leather, etc., which need to comply with the new regulations.â€
There are still a small number of unqualified products on the market.
"The implementation of the new standard has little effect on the overall sales of children's furniture." According to the salesperson of AIA Home Shopping Mall, the children's furniture currently sold is produced according to European standards and has long been within the scope of the new national standard. After visiting a number of children's furniture brand stores in the urban area, the reporter found that all kinds of children's furniture sold in the corners are in line with the technical conditions of the children's furniture new policy.
However, the reporter also found that there are still many children's furniture in the market that are not discounted by the merchants. Yesterday, the reporter came to a children's furniture store in the private city of the private city as a customer. After explaining the purchase intention, the store's shopping guide tried to recommend two sets of special furniture in the store. The reporter observed that a total of five sets of children's furniture were displayed in the store, and only three of them were designed with rounded corners. The two sets of special furniture recommended by the shopping guide did not have the corner rounding design, which belonged to the products that did not meet the New Deal standards.
In the subsequent visit, the reporter found that there were more than one business with this phenomenon. According to a person familiar with the matter, at least 20% of the brands in the furniture market that are not up to standard sales. He said that due to the implementation of the New Deal, the production standards of some manufacturers have not been updated, resulting in the sale of children's furniture that has not reached the New Deal standards.
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