Shanghai quality supervision exposes IKEA children's furniture safety hazards

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Shanghai quality supervision exposed IKEA "problem children's furniture" survey found that Nanjing IKEA is also selling

Just over a week ago, IKEA was exposed to food safety issues: According to the Shanghai Quarantine Bureau, IKEA imported chocolate cream almond cakes with large coliforms. In the first two days, the Shanghai Quality Supervision Department found that some children's tables, chairs and cabinets in IKEA have potential safety hazards and do not meet the requirements of the new national standard. The Yangzi Evening News reporter visited Nanjing IKEA and found that the "problem children's furniture" mentioned in the notice was also sold in Nanjing.

Visiting Nanjing IKEA

A variety of children's furniture has sharp edges and is easy to hit when the child runs.

Yesterday, the reporter visited Nanjing IKEA. According to the new national standard implemented in August last year, the requirements for the edge and the tip of the furniture: "The product should not have dangerous, dangerous, accessible edges or tips that may be harmful during use. The edges and edges should be inverted. Round or chamfered.” A children's bed frame called “Sanwei” has a corner guard at the four corners of the bed, while the “Sanwei” crib next to it is not rounded or chamfered. IKEA sales staff responded that because children often run, the corners of the children's bed are equipped with anti-collision angles to prevent collisions with important parts. There are no such devices in the crib.

The “Jialant” desk notified by Shanghai was not sold in the IKEA children's furniture area in Nanjing, but the reporter then saw the desk in the desk area. One of the "Jialant" desks is printed with the words "table height adjustable 60-90cm, designed for children of lower grades". The table corner is designed to be right angled, too sharp, and not rounded.

Some wardrobes have no venting holes, and children are easy to suffocate.

In view of the child hiding from the cat and hiding in the closed cabinet, the new national standard specifically stipulates: "The closed furniture of the cabinet type used by children should have a certain ventilation function; or the door can be closed, the cover is easy to open, and the close button cannot be equipped with automatic lock setting. ."

The reporter saw at IKEA that a cabinet named "Hanswick" has a venting hole, and the "Trogan" and "Hannis" closet cabinets have small holes for the installation of parts. However, it is not breathable and there is no special venting setting.

Expert: A dime can be used as a reference to check whether it is up to standard

According to the requirements of the new national standard, the accessible outer corners, corners and edge parts of the children's furniture from the ground below 1600 mm should be rounded or chamfered, and the rounding radius is not less than 10 mm, or the inverted arc length is not less than 15 mm. In case children are bumped and injured. When the public can't bring the measuring tools around, how can they judge whether the children's furniture meets the standard?

According to experts from the Quality Supervision and Inspection Center of National Building Materials Products of Nanjing Quality Inspection Institute, the diameter of a coin is just about 10 mm. Parents can use this as a reference before making a purchase. For children's furniture that has already been purchased, if this requirement is not met, parents can purchase a protective cover for the furniture and install anti-collision devices to prevent the collision of children in daily life.

In just half a month, IKEA fell into a food safety storm twice.

More than a week ago, IKEA exposed food safety issues: According to the Shanghai Quarantine Bureau, in the latest round of food quality inspections, IKEA imported chocolate cream almond cake coliforms exceeded the standard, currently has destroyed 1.872 tons. This is the second time that IKEA has fallen into a food safety storm since the Swedish meatballs were found to contain horse meat on February 25.

Many people have always believed that foreign food safety is relatively reassuring, but the fact has broken this "wish." What is even more unacceptable is the performance of the merchant after the problem is exposed: the cake was found to contain E. coli in Shanghai, and IKEA said “not entering China”. Want to look at the safety report, IKEA said that consumers do not have this power.

On March 12th, the Yangtze Evening News gave a focus on IKEA food safety issues. The report pointed out that an IKEA cake "fan" Miss Liu said that for the production batch and the specific name of the cake that had the problem, "IKEA sales staff swears to me that there is no problem, but I also Didn’t see reports such as sanitation, relying on the verbal commitment of the merchants?” The Yangzi Evening News reporter went to the IKEA website with relevant questions. As a result, I could not find any specific text descriptions of the “cake event” by IKEA.