Why are children's furniture not marked with heavy metal content?

“The national standard for children's furniture imposes stricter restrictions on heavy metal content, but this restriction seems to be empty.” Ms. Wang reflects that she has turned to a number of furniture stores and has not found children's furniture with heavy metal content test reports. .

Ms. Wang said with deep feelings that she did not expect the national standards to be implemented for several months. It was difficult to find a heavy metal test report. The explanation of the business made her wonder.

Ms. Wang’s son is 6 years old. When he moved into a new house in May this year, his son had a separate room. Listening to the acquaintances of the decoration company, the environmental protection situation of the children's furniture market at that time was chaotic, and new national standards will be introduced from August, and this situation will be improved. So she and her husband decided to postpone buying furniture for their son.

“We have carefully studied the national standards for children's furniture and found that our understanding of furniture environmental protection is very limited,” Ms. Wang said. Previously, she believed that the main reason for buying furniture for children was to pick styles, colors, materials and formaldehyde. Through the study of the national standards for children's furniture, they found that the national standards are really important for the safety performance requirements of children's furniture, such as the sharp corners, protruding parts, holes, gap size, stability and other aspects of children's furniture, In this way, the protection of children is really not small. More importantly, the national standard has changed her understanding of environmental protection. Originally, when it comes to furniture environmental protection, it is low in formaldehyde. Through the national standards for children's furniture, she learned about soluble heavy metals such as antimony, arsenic, antimony and selenium in furniture. Ten kinds of toxic and hazardous substances may affect people's health, and the standards impose strict limits on their content.

During the “Eleventh” period, Ms. Wang went to the store and found that the shape of the furniture mostly met the requirements of the national standards, but asked about the environmental issues that are more concerned about the heavy metal content. Most of the merchants came out with various “green” certificates and The quality inspection report stated that its products are absolutely in line with the requirements of national standards and are environmentally friendly products. They consulted the relevant certificates and quality inspection reports, and there are no relevant data such as heavy metals. In this regard, some merchants said that the quality inspection report did not list heavy metal projects, and the products were qualified products, indicating that the heavy metal content is in line with national standards or even no heavy metals, and it is not necessary to list them.

The interview found that when it comes to the environmental performance of furniture, people think of the most is formaldehyde, few people mention heavy metals, and the harm to heavy metals is not much.

"Soluble heavy metals are extremely harmful to the human body." Observer Zhang Qiusheng said that at present, the heavy metals that can be transported in furniture mainly include lead, cadmium, chromium, mercury, strontium, arsenic, selenium, tellurium, etc., and enter the human body more than a certain amount. It can cause greater damage to human health. Therefore, relevant national standards impose restrictions on heavy metals in wood furniture and children's furniture. In terms of hazards, lead can damage human nerves, hematopoiesis and reproductive system, especially to 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; long-term exposure to chromium compounds may cause Dermatitis, eczema; chronic mercury poisoning mainly causes central nervous system diseases; sputum and arsenic have radioactive damage to the skin, which will cause skin pigmentation, leading to abnormal keratinization; when selenium is excessive, people will get rickets; sputum and skin or eyes It can cause a burning sensation when contacted.

At present, wood furniture and children's furniture lack a heavy metal content test report, indicating that manufacturers pay insufficient attention to the national standard and the relevant authorities are not well regulated. If there is no heavy metal test report, then its "qualified quality" is worth questioning; without heavy metal test report, it can not achieve clear consumption.

During the author's visit, many consumers expressed support for the implementation of the new national standard. However, as Li Fengqi, chairman of the Hebei Provincial Furniture Association, said, “The new national standard is very detailed for the two types of furniture. For example, it is required to present product specifications, quality express cards, etc. in the sale. However, the new national standard is not yet It is very clear. For example, the quality of the express card is provided by the manufacturer. At present, the furniture industry does not have a special third-party testing agency to systematically test the quality of the furniture, which becomes provided by the manufacturer itself. The manufacturer provides the manufacturer with a large Autonomy, if there is a real act of falsehood, then how to define, how to judge, how to supervise?"

The introduction of relevant standards by the state is conducive to promoting market standardization, but how to implement it after regulations have been made, and when there are irregular market behaviors, who will supervise it? Who will correct it? Who should be reasonable when consumers encounter relevant problems? I am afraid that the relevant departments should consider the issue at the moment. (