What are the requirements of the new national standard for children's furniture
The new national standard for children's furniture
The new national standard stipulates: children's furniture products must not have dangerous sharp edges and dangerous sharp tips, and edges and edges should be rounded or chamfered. The product should not have dangerous protrusions. If there are dangerous protrusions, they should be protected in an appropriate way. According to experience, children are injured at home, often due to touching sharp edges, sharp tips, or protrusions. If the children's furniture are all rounded or chamfered and protected on inevitable protrusions, the danger can be largely avoided.
The new national standard has increased the content requirements of antimony, arsenic, barium, and selenium in the detection of heavy metals. In addition, azo (decomposable aromatic amines) in textiles and leathers are banned. For o-benzene in plastic products Diformate has also been subject to corresponding content restrictions.
The new national standard also puts forward "flame retardant requirements" for children's furniture. Not only household furniture needs to be flame retardant, but furniture used in public places must also be flame retardant. For example, in kindergartens, all furniture is required to be flame-retardant, just in case of a fire, causing deaths and injuries among children.
On the warning signs of children's furniture, it is required to indicate the applicable age group of the product in the instructions for use, and warn about specific items of children's furniture to avoid unnecessary harm to children.
Kaifeng Children's Furniture Market Response
The implementation of the new national standard has had a profound impact on children's furniture companies. On the one hand, the new national standard has strictly formulated the production and production standards for children ’s furniture. For companies that do not meet the standards, the relevant departments will order them to close their doors or make rectifications; Furniture is difficult to circulate on the market.
After the official implementation of the new national standard, the author interviewed and surveyed several representative furniture stores and some online furniture malls, and found that some of the children's furniture being sold did not meet the requirements of the new national standard.
In a large national chain store, the author saw a children's desk with sharp edges, whether at the edge or at the tip, while another storage rack had a similar situation. According to the new national standard, these furniture obviously do not meet the standards. The author immediately asked the sales staff if they knew that the "General Technical Conditions for Children's Furniture" had been implemented on August 1. The salesperson answered, "I don't know."
The author interviewed the store manager again. The manager admitted that the store's attention to the introduction of the new national standard is still relatively high, so after August 1, the products of the merchants must meet the requirements of the new national standard, but it has not yet been enforced. The store has just been notified by the government's quality inspection department, and some tests and spot checks will be arranged in the near future to monitor the behavior of the merchants in this way and regulate the children's furniture market.
The impact of the new national standard on children's furniture prices
Will the implementation of the new national standard cause a significant price increase in children's furniture on the market? This is a matter of great concern to businesses and consumers. With this question, the author interviewed a dealer representing a famous children's furniture brand in China. He said: "The implementation of the new national standard for children's furniture is not enough to cause the price of children's furniture to increase, because the control of harmful substances and the selection of plates and paints were previously required, so these aspects will not increase production costs, the only increase The cost lies in the addition of several processing procedures, such as punching and edge arc treatment, etc. However, these procedures do not add materials. Therefore, after the implementation of the new national standard, it will not cause price increases for children ’s furniture. , That is also a kind of market behavior of merchants, not related to the new national standard. "
It can be seen from the author's interview and investigation in Kaifeng that the enforcement of the new national standard for children's furniture is an inevitable trend. Enterprises must change their thinking and adjust the production process as soon as possible so that the newly-made children's furniture meets the requirements of the new national standard. Merchants should also deal with the existing children's furniture that does not meet the requirements of the new national standard as soon as possible, and remove obstacles to regulate the children's furniture market
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