With China Doll prudently

Information America has just confiscated more than 200,000 dolls originating from China has caused many parents really puzzled. According to the U.s. Bureau of customs and border, the number of seized dolls have the concentration of phthalates. This is the type of chemicals used to make the material soft and more, has been the u.s. Congress prohibited use in children's toys.

At the Binh Tay market (District 6), the doll was hanging right in front of the stalls specializing in toys, with the threat of large and small, different code patterns. Most have colourful and eye catching, dresses xúng xính and of the attached accessories. Body type are hard; other types of hard-body but legs and hands very flexible ... More expensive plastic type doll kind of hard. A sister, "said sales of dolls sold a run", all of which are "made in China".

At some bookstores, doll items are also very rich, diverse, have both budget and luxury goods. Budget categories are priced from 195,000-56000/product, was encased in nylon bag normally; more advanced types have reviews from 299,000-569.000 d/products are packed in boxes with beautiful design. The main materials that make up the doll is from the resin or plastic materials. As well as in the market, 100% of the dolls here are sourced from China. In the segment of the children's toy stores are selling out of the Trade Center, large stores, each doll a minimum of 400,000 VND; most of the vibrations under one million children; that kind of up to two-three million children. The seller asserted very safe because while the dolls are made in China but according to European standards, the u.s., South Korea.

In General, all dolls are no specifications, if there is General only plastic and fabric.

Dolls from budget to high-end are Chinese goods.

DR. Huynh Khanh Duy, Department of chemical engineering, University of HO CHI MINH CITY. HCM said Phthalates is the name of a family of chemicals that are added during the production process, processing plastic products, especially PVC, paints in order to alter the basic nature of the material (which can make plastics more rigid, more flexible, more transparent or to make the paint more hard custom types, phthalates are added).

Do phthalates do not create any links to any chemistry with plastic should be very easy to escape our products to go into the environment and the human body, animals; When plastic products were aging due to long term use or due to the impact of environmental factors (temperature, light ...). Phthalates is especially dangerous for children and pregnant women do can increase the risk of health: breast cancer, endocrine disorders, reproductive disorders, metabolic disorders; can cause miscarriage, premature birth, freaks, sex hormone disorders (do kids early puberty). Therefore, the plasticizer they phthalates have been banned from use in many parts of the world such as the USA, European Union, Japan ...

According to Mr Hoang Lam, technical center of quality measurement criteria 3 (QUATEST 3), Vietnam does not yet have specific regulations regarding the accreditation in the toys products are phthalates. This substance is located in the folder "potentially toxic" in measurement standards. The tested phthalates spend quite a lot of costs and time. So, when in doubt have high risk factors (such as products made from plastic material), the new Center is done.

"When buying plastic toys for their children, parents should limit buy toys made from PVC (because of the danger of containing phthalates). Through the process of contact, bite, shut up, breathe, babies are very susceptible to exposure to phthalates and are at risk for long-term effects to the growth later, "DR. Huynh Khanh Duy warned.=