Today's emerging children's toys are refurbished, and the toy products with new varieties and new ways of playing are overwhelming.
In the past two years, a toy called "fake water" has appeared on the market. It is called a new "decompression artifact" by primary and secondary school students, and it quickly spreads across the campus. However, the reporter's investigation found that this "decompression artifact" relieved the students' learning pressure, but brought health and safety hazards.
Recently, in many toy sales places, a beverage-like product caught the attention of reporters. The appearance of this product is like a reduced version of beverage bottles and beverage cans. Some of the bottles are printed with the words mango juice or strawberry juice, some are called open cola, cola, and some are similar to pure water. The appearance and color are similar to Well-known beverage packaging on the market today is highly similar. The liquid inside is transparent or translucent like water, showing the color of various beverages, and some also emit a faint fragrance. The sales staff told reporters that in fact, this is not a real drink, but a toy called "fake water". The
reporter found that the price of these "fake water" toys is very low, the more expensive ones are 5 yuan, about 10 yuan, and the cheapest is only 1 yuan. The reporter noticed that some "fake water" toys did not have manufacturer information on the labels, but simply marked "fake water" or cola, juice and other words. And most of the "fake water" are made into the shape of food packaging such as beverage bottles, yogurt bottles, cocktail bottles and ice cream boxes. In this regard, many sales staff said that because this toy is like water but not water, the shape of various beverage bottles is just fun, and users know that this is a toy and will not really drink it. The product itself is a Safe and environmentally friendly.
Are "fake water" toys really safe and environmentally friendly?
The reporter learned that in recent years, crystal mud, foaming glue and other ooze toys similar to "fake water" have been detected with the toxic and harmful chemical element boron exceeding the standard.
, as a similar toy, inevitably makes people worry about whether the "fake water" contains the same substance. So is this "fake water" toy really "safe and environmentally friendly" as the salesperson said? In the face of the reporter's doubts, the salesperson revealed that the past ooze toys would contain borax, while fake water is a new type of product, which does not exist.
The reporter purchased 9 types of 14 batches of fake water samples from stationery stores around many schools and sent them to the testing agency for chemical testing. The
test engineer told reporters that in the actual test, the content of borax is determined by analyzing the migration of boron element. After sampling and testing, the test data showed that the 9 models of 14 batches of fake water toys purchased by the reporter all contained boron elements that exceeded the EU toy safety limit.
Zhang Ting, Light Industrial Products (Shenzhen) Laboratory of General Standard Technical Service Co., Ltd.: We are still a little worried about this batch of products. Indeed, the boron element exceeding the standard was detected in these 9 products. It is still relatively common, and the largest one exceeds the scalar by more than 6 times. The
reporter found that the product that exceeded the standard most was the new fake aquatic product without borax produced by the big manufacturer claimed by the merchant. The reporter saw that the label of this product indicated that there are only 6 ingredients such as pure water, foaming powder, starch, and adhesive, which completely gave people the impression of safety and environmental protection. The
test engineer told reporters that in the process of playing with fake water, primary and secondary school students or children will cause excessive borax to enter the human body through broken skin and inadvertent direct or indirect contact with the mouth, which will accumulate over time and bury hidden health risks.
In the stationery store that the reporter sampled and purchased, the reporter saw that many students bought fake water after school, and many students bought the same type of fake water that the reporter sampled.The classmate told reporters that the students in their class like to play with fake water, and some students even have more than 20 bottles of fake water in their hands.
Borax-containing toys are harmful to a large safety standard. Standardization is urgently needed.
Borax is toxic. The 9 fake waters we randomly purchased all contain borax that exceeds the EU standard. How can a product be reassuring? Many fake water toys are typical three-no products and should not have appeared in the market, but why are they sold in large quantities in stationery stores and small supermarkets around the school?
Liu Yanfang, Secretary-General of Shenzhen Toy Industry Association: Small workshops basically blend water and various related chemical raw materials together. This effect can be achieved, and then it is bottled through a filling machine. The engineer of the
testing agency told reporters that the reason why manufacturers are willing to add borax to fake water toys is because borax can change the fluidity of water-like substances, making fake water more elastic and ductile, and achieving a better feel. Effect.
Zhang Ting from the Light Industrial Products (Shenzhen) Laboratory of Tongbiao Standard Technical Service Co., Ltd.: Because borax has a good water retention effect, some of its compounds can lock in moisture. It is precisely this toy that needs to have a liquid extension effect. This borax It is a preferred industrial additive.
The State Administration for Market Regulation and the National Standardization Administration issued the "Guidelines for the Control of the Use of Key Chemical Substances in Consumer Products" in November 2020, suggesting that the migration of boron in liquid or sticky toy materials should be less than 300 mg/kg. But this guideline is not mandatory. Relevant persons appealed that the borax substance that poses a threat to health and safety should be added to the toy safety standards as soon as possible, and it is urgent to change the current situation of excessive addition of dangerous substances to such toys through standard specifications and administrative management.
(Original title: Attention parents! Do not buy this internet celebrity toy!)
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