A Europe-wide enforcement project of the European Chemicals Administration (ECHA) forum found that national enforcement agencies from 26 EU member states inspected over 2400 consumer products and found that over 400 products (approximately 18%) of the sampled products contained excessive harmful chemicals such as lead and phthalates. Violation of relevant EU laws (mainly involving EU REACH regulations, POPs regulations, toy safety directives, RoHS directives, and SVHC substances in candidate lists).
The following tables show the results of the project：
1. Product types:
Electrical devices such as electrical toys, chargers, cables, headphones. 52 % of these products were found non-compliant, mostly due to lead found in solders, phthalates in soft plastic parts, or cadmium in circuit boards.
Sports equipment like yoga mats, bicycle gloves, balls or rubber handles of sport equipment. 18 % of these products were found to be non-compliant mostly due to SCCPs and phthalates in soft plastic and PAH in rubber.
Toys like bathing/aquatic toys, dolls, costumes, play mats, plastic figures, fidget toys, outdoor toys, slime and childcare articles. 16 % of non-electric toys were found to be non-compliant, mostly due to phthalates found in soft plastic parts, but also other restricted substances such as PAHs, nickel, boron or nitrosamines.
Fashion products such as bags, jewellery, belts, shoes and clothes. 15 % of these products were found non-compliant due to the phthalates, lead and cadmium they contained.
2. Material：
3. Legislation
In the case of discovering non-conforming products, inspectors took enforcement measures, most of which led to the recall of such products from the market. It is worth noting that the non-compliance rate of products from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or with unknown origin is higher, with over 90% of non-conforming products coming from China (some products do not have origin information, and ECHA speculates that the majority of them also come from China).
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Post time: Jan-17-2024
