Internet celebrity children's balance bike sales have soared, but they lack standards

The reporter recently visited some sales places and found that the price of children's balance bike was between 100 yuan and 1,000 yuan. The salesperson said that no matter what price the product is, the only difference lies in the material and accessories. The quality of the product is very reliable, there will be no inferior materials, and it will not contain toxic and harmful substances.

On the Internet, most of the product pages of children's balance bikes highlight the environmental protection of materials. A certain children’s balance scooter website declared that “it has passed the relevant German testing and certification and the EU CE environmental protection monitoring, and children can use it with confidence”, and it also has the words “escorting the health of the baby”, giving people an impression of product health and safety. Many products have a favorable rate of over 90% by buyers, and some even reach 100%.

However, the reporter found that the product names of children's balance bikes on the market are not uniform. Some are called children's balance bikes, and some are called scooters, scooters, walkers, and rollers. This shows that this new toy still lacks standards. specification.

The plasticizer of some products exceeds the standard by more than 300 times, and the invisible risks cannot be ignored

Not long ago, the Federation of Consumer Protection Committees in the Yangtze River Delta carried out a comparative test of children's balance bikes. The comparative test involved a total of 30 batches of samples from 27 brands, with prices ranging from more than 100 yuan to more than 800 yuan, basically covering mainstream products in the market.

The test items mainly involve safety performance and indicators, among which the testing of toxic and hazardous substances is the top priority, such as whether the strictly restricted plasticizer phthalate exceeds the standard. According to experts, phthalates can exudate toxicity and have a major impact on the development of children. Long-term exposure may cause cancer or other diseases. In the national compulsory standard GB6675 "Toy Safety", it is required that the total content of each three plasticizers in toy products applicable to children of 36 months and under cannot exceed 0.1% of the accessible toy materials and parts.

However, the test results showed that of 30 products, 9 products were found to contain plasticizers, and the maximum value exceeded the requirements of the national toy standard by more than 300 times.

Among the parts of some products that children often touch with their hands, such as handle gloves and saddle leather, plasticizers exceeding the standard limit were also detected, and the least exceeding the standard was more than 8 times. In the webpage, the products that claimed to be "escort for the health of the baby", the products with the brand name "dodoto", and even the trademark stickers, the gloves and the saddle leather were found to have excessive phthalate content, respectively. 70 times, 100 times, 170 times.

According to experts, once heavy metals enter the human body, they will continue to accumulate, causing significant harm to the liver and kidneys, and can also damage children's reproductive development, intellectual development, and immune system. Long-term exposure may also lead to cancer and even leukemia.