China Consumers Association: Insufficient protection for individual products on children's safety chairs

China Consumers Association tested 20 products and showed no cracking, damage, or escaping from the collision; some of the harmful elements of the product exceeded the standard

For many car-loving children, child safety chairs are the driving standard. At present, there are many products for children's safety chairs on the market. Is the safety of different products and the degree of protection they can provide? Is the dose of harmful substances in the product excessive? Is it safe to understand the child safety seat logo, instructions, and hazard warnings?

In response to these problems, the China Consumers Association conducted comparative tests on 20 child safety seats sold on the market. Yesterday, China Consumers Association released comparative test results and found that some products had problems such as excessive harmful elements and inadequate head protection.

Frontal impact "Genius Baby" lack of head protection

The impact safety performance of this comparative test is based on the GB27887-2011 standard. The simulated child safety protection of the main parts of the 3-year-old doll, including the head, abdomen and chest, was simulated during a frontal impact at a speed of 50 km/h. After the crash test, there was no problem of cracking, damage, or detachment in the 20 samples.

After a frontal impact, individual samples have a protective ability for the child's head. In the event of a collision, the head will move forwards and upwards to varying degrees, easily coming into contact with the internal structure of the vehicle and causing injury to children. The test results show that the sample 4 (genius baby model HB-03) moves beyond the national standard in the horizontal direction of the head, which can easily cause direct contact and collision of the child's head with the front seat.

In the event of a vehicle collision, it is also important that child safety seat products provide a good cushioning effect on children's internal organs. According to the standard requirements, the acceleration of chest synthesis should not exceed 55g, and the value of chest vertical acceleration should not exceed 30g. The results of this test show that the values ​​of all samples are within the scope of national standards. In addition, none of the 20 samples showed a situation where the seatbelt was stretched to the abdomen.

Material safety “Bai Dai Shi” seat chair element exceeds the standard

The child's contact with the child's safety seat is similar to the contact with the toy. Children's accessible car Children's safety seats may contain harmful chemicals such as fabrics and seat belts. If these harmful chemicals are contained in high amounts, they can be given to children once they enter the body through contact, sucking or swallowing. The body has a bad influence.

The comparative tests examined elements harmful to the human body, including lead, cadmium, mercury, chromium, barium, strontium, arsenic, and selenium. If these elements are excessively absorbed by the body, they may cause headaches, nausea and other symptoms. After testing, Sample 6 (Bao Deji/Bai Dai Shi Yi Model EVOLUTION 1-2-3 Super Variety Wang Platinum Edition) in the chair fabric in the presence of cesium element detection value exceeds the standard, the other samples are in the limit Value requirements.

Tests of harmful plasticizers showed that the plasticizer test results of 20 samples all met the standards.

Explain the identification of part of the sample manual instructional warning is incomplete

The product's instruction manual and logo are important instructions for consumers to understand the basic information and basic performance of the purchased product. The national standard GB27887-2011 has clear requirements for the product use instructions and logos, and it has certain requirements for the use of safety warnings, whether the products purchased by consumers, the manuals and logos are easy to understand, and how to clean the children's safety chairs. The child safety chair product purchased by the consumer must be equipped with instructions, and the product has a logo that serves as a guide for the consumer to correctly use and operate the product, and has a warning warning function.

During the trial, it was found that the warnings and guidance of some product description documents were not significant, which could easily lead to consumers being unable to use the product correctly, resulting in problems such as inability to install and installation.

In addition, the expensive child safety seats on the market are mostly based on ISOFIX. Some of the lower-priced child safety seats will be written on the website of their purchase as "ISOFIX interface", but the main fixed mode is still mainly car seat belts. For example, Samples 8 (Rebecca) and 9 (Chitty) have a nominal ISOFIX interface on the purchase website, but they actually use the Latch (Isofit) auxiliary fixtures attached to the product to connect to the vehicle's ISOFIX interface, which truly fixes child safety seats. Chairs are still seatbelts, and consumers should pay attention to differences when they buy.

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Products need to have 3C logo use should be eliminated over 5 years

The Consumers Association reminded that when purchasing a child safety chair, weight should be used as the main reference, and age can be used as a reference.

Domestic child safety chair installation methods are mainly divided into vehicle seatbelt bundle installation and ISOFIX interface installation. The vehicle seat belt-type child safety seat can be applied to various vehicles, and the interface-mounted seat can only be installed in vehicles equipped with interfaces. In general, the ISOFIX device fixed safety seat is easy to operate, reliable installation, and the chance of misoperation is small.

In addition, as of September 1, 2015, child safety chairs sold in the market must pass the CCC certification. Therefore, when purchasing, you should check whether there is a CCC mark.

The life of a child safety chair is generally about 10 years. If you use it for more than 5 years, you need to check it carefully. First, remove the child safety seat cover and see if the skeleton is cracked or broken. Second, look at the child safety seat itself with no breakage, breaks or burrs. Finally, the surface accessible to children should also be carefully examined to see if there are sharp parts that can cause harm to children. If the above problem occurs, be sure to reflect to the manufacturer and replace the new product.

Chairs that are recommended for more than 5 years should be eliminated as soon as possible, even if there are no problems. Although anti-bacterial materials are often used in safety chairs, long-term use or repeated transfer will inevitably breed many bacteria and endanger your baby's health. Therefore, in addition to suggesting that parents purchase new child safety seats, they should also purchase products that are easily disassembled and cleaned at the time of selection.

Finally, avoid buying second-hand child safety seats; safety chairs after traffic accidents are no longer recommended.