Taiwan media explosion tattoo sticker plasticizer too easy to cause children premature

Guangzhou has not yet supervised spot checks and tattoo stickers. New Express News Trainee reporter Feng Yandan reported recently that Taiwanese media reported that spot checks found that tattoo stickers contained excessive plasticizers. New Express reporter recently discovered that the market for tattoos in Guangzhou is uneven, with supermarkets selling barcodes and regular manufacturers, toy shops and boutiques selling only foreign languages, and not complying with the regulations. The Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Quality Supervision and the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Industry and Commerce all said that they have not yet done supervision and spot checks on tattoo stickers.

Some members of the public thought that they did not eat into their mouths. The reporter visited the Guangzhou market yesterday. The stickers of the counters of major supermarket stationery stores such as Tesco and Guangbai Department Store have regular barcodes and Chinese labels. There are also manufacturers and other information. The price is 6 yuan to 10 yuan. Yuan varies. Many of the stickers sold in toy stores and many boutiques along the People's Middle Road are not officially marked in Chinese, and some are only marked in foreign languages. Prices range from 2 yuan to 5 yuan.

The reporter then randomly interviewed several parents near the city's children's park and the city's children. Most of the interviewed parents said that the children did not play stickers. The mother of a five-year-old girl said that her daughter particularly likes to play when she is a year or two old. "I later feared that my child would not have good skin and would not let her play."

"He started playing stickers less than a year old, and sometimes he put stickers on his face. Most of them are on the wall or furniture in the house. The adults look tighter and do not let him out of their mouths." Cub is three years old this year. Mother Bear thought that such a small thing would not be as poisonous as long as she did not put it into her mouth.

For tattoo stickers that may contain plasticizers or news of precocious puberty, most parents and young people say they do not know. "As long as you don't eat into the stomach, it shouldn't matter." A young hot mom said that she and her children love to use tattoo stickers.

According to the city's industrial and commercial administration, the quality of tattoo stickers on the Guangzhou market will be considered for spot checks. The relevant person in charge of the Consumer Protection Division of the Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce stated that this is a new product and there has not been enough attention before. “Over the past year, there have been no quality checks on tattoo stickers.” The relevant person in charge of the Quality Supervision Bureau of the Municipality also said that there has been no supervision and inspection of tattoo stickers products so far.

The person in charge of the Consumer Protection Division of the Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce introduced that the name and address of the imported product must also be in Chinese, and the name, address, and telephone number of the import agent marked in the country of origin as well as in Chinese. "There is no formal Chinese label, absolutely can not be sold." The responsible person said that the city of industry and commerce will be based on the situation provided by the reporter to conduct investigations, illegal merchandise will be ordered off the shelf; if you refuse to correct, you will be punished by a 20% value of the fine. He also said that the Trade and Industry Bureau will consider using tattoo stickers as a category for spot checks.

News links bright tattoo stickers or heavy metal too high According to Taiwan's "Today's News" report, the Taiwan Consumer Culture and Education Association (CFL) recently spotted 15 tattoo stickers on the market, and found that 9 items were marked as unqualified and there was a Items contain excessive plasticizers.

According to the phthalate test carried out by the Taiwan Consumers Foundation for tattoo stickers, it was found that there was a limit of 0.1%. Once it was applied to children, it was caused by skin allergies, and it was absorbed by the body, resulting in increased female estrogen and precocious puberty. . Although the remaining 14 cases are within the legal scope, there are also many traces of plasticizers. At the same time, it has also been found that the pigments used in colorful tattoo stickers may contain excessively heavy metals. There are two heavy metals detected in the samples, which are particularly toxic to children and may affect the development and learning ability of the central nervous system. Poisoning And there is also a tendency to overdo it.