Children Under The Age of 14 Should Not Use This Kind of Toys With Potential Safety Hazards

Seal seal is a DIY product popular among teenagers at present, and it is promoted and sold as children's "toys" in the market. At present, wax seal products are mainly divided into ordinary seal seals and edible seal seals. Ordinary wax seals mainly include seal heads, candles, colored wax pellets, wax melting spoons, etc., and the materials are generally plastic, metal, and wax. Edible wax seals are made by replacing the colored wax particles in ordinary wax seals with candies, melting the sugar and pressing them with seals to form candies of various shapes.

This risk monitoring adopts the detection methods in relevant national standards for toys and food safety standards, and the toy safety (mechanical and physical properties, flammability, migration of specific elements, plasticizers) and food contact product safety of wax seal products (total migration, arsenic, cadmium, lead, chromium, nickel migration) items were tested. A risk assessment was carried out for the risks of odor, open flame burns, etc. After testing, the flammability, migration of specific elements, plasticizers, and food contact product safety items of all 20 batches of products all meet the standard requirements, but it is found that the products have safety risks. According to the comprehensive evaluation of experts, children under the age of 14 in the There may be safety hazards such as burns, electric shock, and suffocation when playing. This product should not be used by children under the age of 14.

1. Risk of open flame exposure
Batch 18 contained candles that could produce an open flame, but there was no barrier in the product's construction that would prevent children from exposure to the open flame. If children put their hands and other parts into the candle holder, they can directly come into contact with the fire source, which may cause a risk of burns.

2. The temperature rise of the front end of the metal handle and the metal sheet of the candle holder is too high
The handle of the wax melting spoon in the 4 batches of samples is made of metal. During continuous use and heating, the temperature rise of the front end of the handle is too high, which may cause the risk of scalding children's fingers.

3. Presence of accessible dangerous points
6 batches of samples contained tweezers, stirring rods or badges, and there were functional sharp tips and accessible sharp tips, but there were no relevant warning instructions. There may be a skin puncture hazard when used by children.

4. Contains electric furnaces that should not be used by children
Two batches of samples included electric melting furnaces as heating appliances. One of the electric melting furnaces is a heat source toy in the toy standard. The temperature rise around the heating part exceeds the standard requirement, and there is a risk of burns. The other electric melting furnace is a household appliance with live and heating parts, and should not be used as a toy for children.

5. It is not stated that it can be used in food contact materials
3 batches of edible wax seal samples used as food contact materials and products, did not indicate "food contact", "food packaging" or similar terms according to the requirements of the national food safety standards, or printed or affixed the spoon chopsticks logo, may Causing children to swallow by mistake.