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There is a toy called'Bubble Gun' that children love. When you press the button, soap bubbles are automatically created. In some products imported from China, environmental hormones more than 120 times the standard value were detected.
Reporter Han Sang-woo's report.
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It is a so-called'bubble gun', a dolphin-shaped soap bubble gun imported from China.
It is a toy that children under the age of 13 play with a lot.
However, in the customs clearance investigation, a phthalate plasticizer, an environmental hormone, was detected 120 times the standard value.
Phthalate plasticizers are endocrine disruptors that can cause atopy or disrupt kidneys and reproductive organs if they come into contact with the skin or if inhaled by mouth.
Other shark-shaped bubble guns also produced more than 60 times the standard value.
[Eun-ah Shim/Director of Certification Operation Team, Korea Apparel Testing Institute: Hazardous substances were detected in the wire inside the shape of the mouth that children's fingers can reach.] These
are products that have already received safety certification and were imported. Will.
[Lee Byung-hui/National Institute of Technology and Standards Researcher: Overall, we have a plan to (to investigate). In addition to this product, this product was caught and handed over at the customs clearance stage, but we want to inspect all other similar products.] In
addition, 440,000 items, such as children's toys and school supplies, were not certified or were detected while importing products other than those that were certified.
When some toys are certified for safety, the product they are actually importing and the product they are actually importing are clearly different.
The Korea Customs Service and the National Agency for Technology and Standards said they will further strengthen customs clearance inspections as imports of children's toys and school supplies are increasing significantly.
(Video editing: Yoon Tae-ho)