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HC coating Network News: May 7 am learned from relevant departments, China's first "toys with paint in the limit of harmful substances" mandatory national standard from October 1 this year, come into force. In the future, toys, lead paint, arsenic and other harmful substances will be clear ceiling.
It is reported that, in order to make toys look beautiful, relatively durable, toy production process generally used to protect the substrate surface and decorative paint toys. Coatings harmful substances mainly heavy metals, plasticizers and organic solvents o-benzene into three categories.
Heavy metals containing harmful substances usually refers to the antimony, arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, selenium and so on, its toxic to human body are many; adjacent benzene can cause liver and kidney function of plasticizer down, the blood red blood cells, with mutagenic and carcinogenic.
As toys, especially children directly with the human body in close contact with harmful substances which once exceeded will affect the health of children. To this end, China's first national standards promulgated on toys with paint on substances hazardous to humans and the environment to make a mandatory requirement to allow limited.
Standards require that the ratio of the product under the conditions expressed in the construction, according to the relevant testing requirements, toys with lead content of paint shall not exceed 600mg/kg; arsenic content of not more than 25mg/kg; mercury content of no more than 60mg/kg; and the ratio of benzene should not exceed 0.3% and so on.
It is reported that this national standard will be implemented from October 1. In the future, the test results only if all items are up to standard requirements, the product can be considered standard. And where the initial shape of new products, the product key off-site sources of raw materials production and when major changes occur, have to be tested at any time.
's Interrupted Safety indicators will continue to improve
Press call this morning, the first authors of the standard, the National Standardization Technical Committee coatings and paint experts Ning Huang. Huang Ning told reporters that the safety of toys paint with the skill level indicators will improve and enhance.
Implementation in accordance with the standards of China soon, toys with lead paint in not more than 600mg/kg, 2009 onwards, the United States will not exceed the target reduced to 90mg/kg. In response, experts said, the United States is the most stringent lead content of national indicators, the country's national standard adopted by the United States revised the former standard. Experts stressed that the first "toys with paint in the limit of harmful substances," National Standards issued is to adopt the relevant international standards, while fully taking into account the current level of China's toy enterprises and the development of China's national conditions, for the safety of our toys have been very major upgrade.
International standard is dynamic, therefore, as China's toy production technologies continue to enhance the relevant toy safety indicators paint will rise.
