subject: The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Children Plastic Tableware And The Right Usage [print this page] It is well know that plastic tableware is widely used in childrens daily life. Owing to the advantages of light weight, beauty and difficult to break, plastic tableware is always welcome by children and parents. Besides, the plastic tableware usually has beautiful patterns that can attract childrens attention. However, plastic tableware has some disadvantages, such as it is difficult to wash, easy to wet oil stain. Whats important, plastic tableware will release some harmful articles and will do bad influence to childrens health. However, you neednt to worry about this if you use them in a right way.
Not all plastic is suitable to make tableware. The tableware which made by PVC is poisonous and will do harm to humans health. The nontoxic plastic tablewares are usually made by PE, PP and melamine and other materials. Melamine is a kind of thermosetting plastic; its main material is melamine formaldehyde resin and adds with some accessory materials like pulp cellulose filling and colorant. The plastic tableware made by melamine has characteristics of acid-resisting and alkali resisting, and this kind of tableware also called tilelike tableware. The qualified tilelike tableware has high safety. If we use it correctly, we dont need worry too much of its harm. While, you should pay attention that if the resin doesnt have a good polymerization, melamine will easily transfer to food, besides, melamine will produce harmful material after heated or using in microwave oven. So even if you are using qualified tilelike plastic tableware, do not use them to hold acid, oiliness and basic food, especially do not use to place food with high temperature and do not heat food with tilelike tableware.
During using the plastic tableware for children, parents must pay attention to these tips:
1.During choosing, you must be certain about the QS symbol. Experts suggest that do not choose colorful plastic tableware for children. Youd better choose ones which are pellucid and without patterns, if you want to attract babys attention and want to choose ones with followers and animals, you should buy in regular market and buy the famous brand.
2.After you buy the plastic tableware, you should boil it for two to three minutes in hot water with vinegar or soaked with vinegar for two hours under normal temperature, in order to release the harmful materials.
3.Plastic tableware is more suitable to place vegetable, fruit and so on, do not use them to place meat food, cooked food with too much oil.
4.Do not buy plastic tableware with odorous and mussy color for these products usually has high content of lead.
