Children's products should be more environmentally friendly and safer, and they are more suitable for use by younger people. However, through the recent sampling inspections by many geological supervision departments across the country, children's furniture has repeatedly been on the black list, including many well-known brands. The reasons for disqualification involve safety and environmental protection. Indicators, including structural defects, excessive levels of hazardous substances, etc. What problems should parents pay attention to when purchasing furniture for their children, and what are the misunderstandings?
Structural defects are often overlooked
According to the results of the sampling inspection of furniture products released by the Beijing Municipal Administration of Industry and Commerce, 42 products such as “More Love†and “Log Life†were unqualified; Lan Jingli Home, Real Home, Jimei Home, Aijia World Home Exhibition Market, Jinyuan Times Mall, Leyou Maternity Store, Lijiali Baby and Children's Products Convenience Store and other stores were also named because they detected unqualified furniture.
In addition, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shandong Province, Jinan City, Shanghai and other industrial and commercial and quality supervision departments have also carried out random inspections on the quality of children's furniture, of which 150 batches in Jiangsu Province, the pass rate is less than half.
The author finds that the reasons for the unqualified children's furniture are most prominent due to structural defects, including well-known foreign brands, which have the potential to harm children.
In an interview with the Beijing furniture store, the author found that many parents said that when purchasing children's furniture, the most important thing is practicality and odorless, but there are few people who consider the details of furniture corners. "I usually look at the work, the price, and the smell again. I really haven't really considered the structure of the furniture." Ms. Zhang, who is buying a children's bed at Jimei Furniture City in Beijing, said.
Global Child Safety Organization has released data that 61.2% of child injuries occur at home, and nearly 80% of parents do not know how to carry out safety inspections on household items, while children at home are more likely to be related to furniture. Structural safety is different from adult furniture for children. Test items. In the "General Technical Conditions for Children's Furniture" promulgated in 2012 (also known as the National Standard for Children's Furniture), mandatory regulations are imposed on indicators that cause harm to children, such as the safety of the structure, the permeability of the confined space, and stability. Sex and so on. For example, children's furniture is required to be rounded in protrusions, sharp corners, etc., which has higher requirements for craftsmanship and design.
The author's investigation found that stability is the most difficult safety consideration for furniture in parents. Because children are naturally active and like to play, they may climb the cabinet and push the furniture. If the cabinet itself is not secure enough, or the table is not stable enough, there may be danger of hurting the child.
Previously, IKEA recalled the drawer cabinet incident because the height of the product exceeded 0.6 meters, and the furniture was not fixed on the wall. There were many tragedies in which children were stabbed and even killed when they were pulling and climbing furniture.
The author also found a market phenomenon in the survey - the national standard for children's furniture is the furniture used by children aged 3-14. Some furniture products are obviously used for children in terms of appearance and design, but the sales staff will not give clear instructions. In the event of a dispute, or the detection of unqualified items, many companies will advertise their own products as "teenage furniture", should apply the adult furniture standards to evade the national standard, and shirk responsibility.
The industry reminds consumers that when adding furniture to children's rooms, we should first carefully check whether the corners of the cabinet, bedside and bed box have been chamfered, whether the rivets of the furniture are exposed, whether the lower part of the furniture has glass decoration, etc. It should have sharp edges and fragile decorations. Secondly, children often suffer from curious and suffocating suffocation in a closed cabinet. Therefore, when purchasing children's wardrobes and bookcases, be sure to pay attention to whether there are vent holes on the closed cabinet.
Environmental protection issues
When I visited, I learned that most parents will consider environmental issues when they choose furniture for their children. However, many consumers report that if they don't have enough professional knowledge, they are easily overwhelmed by the “routine†of sales people.
“The salesperson told me that the solid wood is natural wood, which is more environmentally friendly than the plate; the sales staff of the plate furniture also said that the current plate has been sealed, formaldehyde can not be released, can reach the environmental standard of E0 level, safer than solid wood, many foreign countries. Children's furniture uses it as a raw material." The salesperson's various rhetoric is reasonable. How do you choose? Mr. Fang, who bought children's furniture at a furniture store in Beijing, has no idea.
According to industry analysts, the environmental protection of furniture raw materials from low to high is medium density board, particle board, large core board, plywood, laminated board, integrated board, solid wood. Since the plate is mainly bonded by glue, the formaldehyde content is inevitably high, and the environmentally-friendly skin is attached to the outside of the plate, and the sealed seal is processed to achieve the use standard. But this does not mean that formaldehyde is not released, but the quality of the sheet is good and the release is slow.
Another point to be reminded is that solid wood furniture does not represent zero formaldehyde.
In the solid wood furniture store, the author can immediately feel the obvious glare and pungent sensation near the furniture product. The salesperson is calm and self-sufficient: "This is the taste of the pine itself, not only harmless, but also good for the body."
Song Guangsheng, director of the National Indoor Environment and Indoor Environmental Product Quality Supervision and Inspection Center, explained: “When solid wood furniture is made of monolithic wood, it is indeed very environmentally friendly, but most of the children's furniture on the market uses finger joints as raw materials. After the products need to be assembled by glue, anti-insect and anti-corrosion treatment, formaldehyde and other substances are inevitable, and environmental protection is a test of the integrity and technical process of the materials enterprises. If high-quality glue is used and the dosage is strictly controlled, harmful substances can generally be controlled within a reasonable range. Inside, on the contrary, there may be a problem of excessive formaldehyde. The formaldehyde exceeds the standard and it has obvious pungent and glare."
Mr. Chen, who has been engaged in the timber business for many years, told the author that after the pine tree is opened, it can smell a faint pine scent, instead of being pungent and glaring, and the smell can be dissipated in a dozen days, processed into wood and painted. The pine scent will be completely covered. He believes: "The salesperson's pungent sensation on the wardrobe and drawer is a loose-smelling explanation that is confusing consumers."
Heavy metal hazard is no worse than formaldehyde
Recently, the results of sampling of children's furniture announced by the Jiangsu Provincial Bureau of Quality Supervision showed that some of the unqualified products exceeded the standard by 40 times.
Because heavy metals such as lead, mercury and cadmium in furniture are invisible and intangible, the harm to the human body is not as easy to detect as formaldehyde, so consumers' protection against heavy metals is far less careful than formaldehyde.
According to industry insiders, almost all furniture on the market currently contain a certain amount of heavy metals, and children's furniture is no exception. Children's furniture production can not avoid the production of heavy metals from materials to processing technology. Merchants claim that the absence of heavy metals is misleading consumers. China's current standard "Limits of Hazardous Substances in Wood Furniture for Interior Decoration Materials" has imposed restrictions on four heavy metals such as cadmium, chromium, lead and mercury, and the "General Technical Conditions for Children's Furniture" has added new pairs of antimony and selenium. The limit standards for four heavy metals, arsenic and antimony, are all heavy metals exceeding the standard.
However, the author understands that most parents will ask about the formaldehyde emission of furniture when they choose furniture for their children, but few parents pay attention to whether the heavy metal content exceeds the standard. Many people believe that as long as the quality inspection report is qualified, the product can be used with confidence. As for the environmental protection problem, there is no smell and there is no formaldehyde, so you can use it with confidence.
According to industry insiders, children's furniture usually has more colors and is more vivid. It is worth noting that whether the furniture paint is oily or water-based, the brightly colored paints generally contain more heavy metals than ordinary paints. The surface coating of the furniture may bring heavy metals into the body under the action of human contact friction or a suitable solvent. That is to say, heavy metals can migrate into the human body through appropriate media. Soluble heavy metals are extremely harmful to the human body. For example, lead can damage human nerves, hematopoiesis and reproductive system, especially for children and adolescents, which may affect children's growth and development and intellectual development; long-term inhalation of cadmium may impair kidney and lung function; Contact with chromium compounds can cause dermatitis and eczema; chronic mercury poisoning mainly causes central nervous system diseases; sputum and arsenic have radioactive damage to the skin, which can cause skin pigmentation and lead to abnormal keratinization; when selenium is excessive, people will get rickets; When it comes into contact with the skin or eyes, it can cause a burning sensation.
The industry reminds consumers that when purchasing children's furniture, they should first check the recent product quality inspection report of the furniture, check the monitoring information, such as whether the sample name, trademark, model specification and physical product meet, the production unit, the unit under inspection and the merchant. The information provided is consistent, and the test results are qualified. Compared with the multiple supervision and restraint of shopping malls and home stores, the furniture sold on the network platform is more prone to quality failure, so consumers need to be cautious when shopping online for children's furniture. After purchasing children's furniture, you should also keep the product manual, warranty card, invoice or sales receipts, receipts and other bills, so that once the family has quality problems, consumers can maintain legal rights and evidence.
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