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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.
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.