Must See--How much do you know about plush toys?

In the increasing focus on product safety and environmental protection now, it is particularly important to understand its raw materials and related product standards, this Hang Mei testing to explain to you about plush toy testing standards and the harm of poor quality products!

What kind of toys are plush toys?
Plush toys, plush fabrics and pp cotton or other textile materials as the main fabric, filled with a variety of internal filler and made of toys. With lovely shape, soft touch, not afraid of extrusion, easy to clean, decorative, high security, applicable to a wide range of people and other characteristics. Therefore, plush toys as children's dolls, room decorations or used as gifts to others are a good choice. According to the different fillers of plush toys, they are divided into PP cotton plush toys and foam particle toys; according to the length of the plush doll's plush, they are divided into long plush dolls and super soft short plush dolls.
Plush toy testing standards
Plush players because of its close contact with children is the need for testing, in order to strengthen the supervision of children's toy product quality, to ensure the safety of children in the process of playing, countries around the world are stepping up the establishment and improvement of toy product quality and safety standards.
Plush toys testing program
Plush toys test the main items generally include: 1, mechanical and physical properties test (simulation of children in the normal use of toys and foreseeable reasonable abuse of the situation, whether the toy has potential physical hazards), 2, combustion performance testing (in specific conditions to test the flammability of toys or materials to see whether the toy near the source of ignition is prone to combustion, which can lead to burns in children), 3, chemical testing (soluble) heavy metal content testing, toxic element testing of packaging materials, phthalate content, formaldehyde, plasticizers, azo, toy plastic testing, toy paint testing, toy accessories testing, total lead, etc.)
Potential safety hazards of substandard plush toys

First, substandard plush toys are prone to adsorb dust, hidden bacteria and formaldehyde. Children in contact with these toys will induce allergies, such as diarrhea, lung infections. If more than one child comes into contact with them, it is easy to cause cross-infection. There are also some toys that contain harmful chemicals, which can cause children to tear, erythema, and may lead to skin diseases.

Second, many poor-quality plush toys have hair, the child is very easy to drop the hair sucked into the nose, or some of the fluff inhaled into the mouth, which will form a child's respiratory tract, serious may lead to choking.
Third, there are some plush toys look very beautiful on the surface, but the filler inside is black cotton, waste old material, very unhygienic; there are some toys parts are not solid, easy to fall off, it is easy for the child to accidentally swallowed; in addition, there are some children's toys of lead, mercury, benzene and other hazardous substances in the content of the excessive standards, which will seriously jeopardize the physical and mental health of children.
Summarize the recommendations

For parents, when selecting plush toys, pay attention to plush toys whether there is an odor and hair loss, and then pinch the inside of the plush toys to see if there is no hard substance inside the toy, or metal fragments, glass, needles and other unsafe items.

For exporters, China is a large toy exporter, the main export target market is the European market, which exports to the European market of toys on average about 40% of China's annual exports of toys. Here to remind exporters, the export of plush toys must pay attention to the need to have the corresponding toy test report. Including sales in the e-commerce platform also need to be certified, for example, Amazon requires children's toys sold on its platform, are required to provide the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recognized certificate.