Children's furniture comes in addition to formaldehyde, lead, mercury and cadmium.

"I have only heard of children's furniture containing harmful substances such as formaldehyde, but I have never heard of heavy metals such as lead, mercury and cadmium." Recently, Mr. Zhang encountered a depressed thing. Originally wanted to buy a set of children's furniture for children, but a "heavy metal test report" made him "stunned."

Found that children's furniture actually contains heavy metals

Last weekend, Mr. Zhang accompanied his children to a furniture market to select children's furniture. "In order to ensure the health of children, I pay special attention to the environmental protection indicators of children's furniture such as formaldehyde. In the children's furniture store, the children have seen a set of cartoon furniture." Mr. Zhang introduced that the salesperson introduced the brand's children's furniture are environmentally friendly. The quality is absolutely guaranteed. “The store has taken out some environmental certificates and quality inspection reports. After careful inspection, I found a 'heavy metal test report' with heavy metals such as lead, mercury and cadmium.”

What makes Mr. Zhang more puzzled is that this set of children's furniture clearly contains heavy metals, but why the merchants call themselves "green furniture".

Experts almost all furniture contain heavy metals

For the question of Mr. Zhang, the author consulted an insider. "In fact, heavy metals in furniture are generally not valued. When buying furniture, everyone mainly looks at comfort and appearance. At present, almost all furniture in the market contains a certain amount of heavy metal, and children's furniture is also the same." Insiders, furniture Heavy metals are mainly derived from pigment coatings on the surface of the product. At the same time, experts said that citizens should not be afraid to hear "heavy metals". The heavy metal content of children's furniture can be used with confidence within the relevant national standards.

It is understood that according to the "General Technical Conditions for Children's Furniture" promulgated in August 2012, eight heavy metals such as cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, antimony, arsenic, antimony and selenium must be within the limits of the standard.

Investigating the hard-to-find metal test report in the furniture market

Subsequently, the author visited a number of furniture stores to find that whether it is children's furniture or adult furniture, businesses rarely provide heavy metal test reports. Compared with formaldehyde, the content of heavy metals in furniture, whether it is furniture manufacturers or consumers, obviously lacks enough attention.

“When purchasing furniture, you can check whether the quality inspection report of the furniture product indicates the qualified product, and check the heavy metal content test report. The lower the heavy metal content, the safer the human body is.” A furniture store manager introduced. In particular, the purchase of children's furniture, but also pay attention to the heavy metal content, even if the product meets the requirements of the national standard, the heavy metal content is high or low, there should be relevant test reports.

At the same time, people in the industry also called on relevant departments to increase the publicity of relevant standards, strengthen supervision and inspection of relevant product compliance standards, regularly publish products that do not provide heavy metal content data, and expose false brands and products. Let the detection and publicity of heavy metal content data become the necessary actions of all furniture manufacturers to create a clear and healthy environment for consumers.