Gyeonggi-do Province "37 Chinese online platforms failed to meet safety standards for children's products."

The Gyeonggi provincial government said that about half of the safety tests of children's products sold on Chinese online platforms were found to be unfit for domestic safety standards.

A total of 70 children's products, including baby and children's textile products, sports protection products, general toys, stuffed dolls, and jewelry, sold on Chinese online shopping platforms Ali and Temu, were found to have failed to meet domestic safety standards.

By item, 11 (73%) out of 15 textile products, 10 (100%) out of 10 sports protection products, 7 (47%) out of 15 general toys, 3 (20%) out of 15 stuffed dolls, and 6 (40%) out of 15 jewelry products exceeded the allowable value or had poor shock absorption.

Among them, for textile products, the content of phthalate plasticizers in the hat logo part and the zipper bottom plastic part of the girl's coat exceeded the domestic standard (total of less than 0.1%).

In particular, phthalate plasticizers were detected 375.9 times the standard value in children's hats.

Phthalate-based plasticizers were detected up to 260.9 times in the artificial leather coating area of the wrist protector, a sports product.

Phthalate plasticizers are used to improve the flexibility of plastic products, which can affect the endocrine system, disrupt hormonal balance and cause liver and kidney damage.

In the plastic parts of the stuffed doll, phthalate plasticizer was detected up to 281.7 times over.

Among the jewelry, the total lead content was detected 304.3 times higher than the domestic standard (90mg/kg), and the total lead content was detected 191 times higher than the domestic standard (100mg/kg) in the adjustment pin of the wristwatch.

In metal earring pins and vinyl tick pins, the total cadmium content was detected up to 2.2 times (75 mg/kg in Korea) and the nickel elution was 4.4 times (less than 0.5㎍g/㎠/week in Korea).The

provincial government plans to ask platform operators to stop selling products that do not meet domestic safety standards as a result of this inspection.