Parents may think that many plastic toys, as long as the purchase of plastic toys in line with national standards related products, it will not endanger the health, in fact, not the children's toys generally contain heavy metal elements, no matter how the standard qualified toys, but also the content of harmful elements Less harm to human body is relatively small only, and that may be due to the production process, but also on the surface of many metal elements, so parents do not over-reliance on science and technology should be used before the children play plastic toys, the toy before cleaning to be more Peace of mind.
According to the toy valley to understand, recently, did a survey to prove whether the toys generally contain heavy metal elements. Therefore invited non-governmental environmental NGO professionals from the large online mall, supermarkets, street vendors and other places to buy toys to buy plastic toys, building blocks toys and colored clay toys six, and through the portable elemental analyzer to verify the heavy metal content.
The results showed that although the toys generally contain lead, chromium and other metal elements, but they are in line with the current national toy standards, it is estimated that children's exposure to toys and heavy metals intake is unlikely to affect health. But for many good and bad toys, the other things can not be guaranteed.
In fact, heavy metals are not mainly in the plastic, but from the coating material, in order to make the toy products bright colors attractive, paint, paint is an essential material, even if the use of recycled plastics, it will contain harmful heavy metals. We all know that the human body will be poisoned if it is overexposed to heavy metals and will endanger the life if it is serious. It is extremely harmful. The children through heavy metal toys, eating toy nibs thereby intake of heavy metal elements, can cause chronic effects, such as children with mental retardation, blood diseases, easy to induce cirrhosis or liver cancer.
Therefore, cleaning plastic toys is an important part of the protection. Parents should first purchase toys with acceptable standards and then wash them under the sun for drying. If the plastic toys are marked as being able to withstand high temperatures, they can also cook the toys or Use boiling water and then use it again.