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The sweeping new toy safety rules will also mean that all toys sold in the EU will be slapped with a ‘digital product passport’ in the form of a QR code displaying its compliance with EU safety laws.
Children’s squeaky plastic toys, trucks, blocks and dolls contain chemicals which are harmful to health, such as PFAS, also known as ‘forever chemicals’, as well as other hazardous substances like bisphenols.
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Recently, the Commission said they would take a “holistic” approach to regulating large e-commerce platforms like Shein, and Norway is mulling a crackdown on Temu, including a possible ban, over the sale of toxic toys.
A recent investigation by Toy Industries Europe into unbranded toys sold online found that 80% of toys examined by the group failed to meet EU safety standards, including products purchased from Amazon, Wish and AliExpress.
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the thing that bothers me is that they had to be banned by a multinational regulation institute, and weren’t just dropped by companies themselves using this rarity called common fucking sense and decency.
As someone else already wrote, Chinese companies simply don’t care.
No companies care unless the end effects can be traced back to them and it blows up in a massive Public Relations nightmare that seriously damages their brand: just look at what happens under the US’ regulatory environment which doesn’t follow the Precautionary Principle.
Shit that directly and quickly kills or visibly hursts people: sure they care because it quickly spreads that their products are dangerous.
Shit that causes problems years later which are pretty much impossible to trace back to a specific product: they couldn’t give a rats arse.
Sociopathy (literally “I don’t care who gets harmed as long as I make money and get away with it”) in company management is far from a Chinese-specific thing.
Not being able to rely on companies caring unless it directly damages their bottom line is why Strong Regulations are needed and Neoliberalism (with it’s Deregulation mantra) has resulted on enshittification of just about everything.
Who cares about sick children, our shareholders want their money
Weak ass kids just getting weaker. How are they gonna build solid immune systems without the lead, mercury and microplastics
Can’t even give little Timmy childhood lead poisoning anymore because of woke smh
A large number of substance is already banned from being used in toys. However the Chinese simply don’t care. The chance of the product being analyzed at import is so miniscule, it’s just a risk they’re willing to take.
Then the law should go after the intermediaries (i.e. Amazon, Wish, AliExpress) who are making available those products in Europe.
(And you can be sure even the likes of AliExpress will comply: when the EU enacted a “Everything imported by consumers now has VAT” rule with a “Foreign sellers can register in an EU system were they charge the country-appropriate VAT at the time of sale and send the VAT themselves to that EU country” they immediatly adopted that system to avoid having everything they sold stopped at the border and held until VAT was paid)
Today the importers are legally responsible. however the chance to get caught is miniscule. Reading EU’s rapex reports, often it is even unknown where the product was sold.
Even the responsible importers can be caught off guard if the samples are good quality, but after some time the supplier switches to toxic quality.
A recent investigation by Toy Industries Europe into unbranded toys sold online found that 80% of toys examined by the group failed to meet EU safety standards, including products purchased from Amazon, Wish and AliExpress.
Big fucking surprise. Never trust Chinese trash, even if you do obsess over filling your home with shit that never works, never impose that shit on someone else. Neglectful idiot consumers harm the environment and society.
The fact that Amazon isn’t fined to Mercury and back for continue to sell/display unsafe children toys is mindboggling.
“it’s not us, it’s our sellers!”
Maybe I’d accept that if they weren’t gobbling an enormous percentage of every transaction and storing it in their own warehouses.
“It’s not us, it’s our business model!”
what? you think Amazon should be fined for distributing “babies first hat making kits feat. real mercury”?
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Yeah, but we suck at enforcing it
Watch republicans lash out in response.
