Ballpoint pen "hidden" knife beware of dangerous stationery entering the campus
The ballpoint pen knife purchased by the reporter online has a sharp tip and a sharp blade, which can easily pierce 20 stacked A4 papers
On November 14, a topic of "a ballpoint pen sold at the school gate hides a real knife" rushed into the hot search on Weibo.
In the video, a parent of a student in Henan is holding a black ballpoint pen. From the appearance, this pen is no different from an ordinary ballpoint pen, but when the cap at one end is pulled off, a small knife about the length of an adult's index finger is exposed. .
According to the parent, the child bought the pen from the school gate. "This is a sharp real knife, and the tip of the (knife) is very sharp."
A reporter from the Beijing News found that the current definition of this pen knife on major e-commerce platforms is "self-defense pen", "multifunctional pen", "hidden ballpoint pen" and so on.
manufacturer
Some orders are outsourced to family workshops to produce simple packaging without any danger warnings printed
In the "General Requirements for the Safety of Student Supplies" (hereinafter referred to as the "Requirements"), which will be implemented on February 1, 2022, for supplies suitable for students under the age of 14 (including 14 years old) for schooling, it is required to be on the product or its packaging Applicable ages are indicated.
Ma Ping, director and senior engineer of the National Cultural and Educational Supplies Quality Inspection and Testing Center, told reporters that if pen knives are to be sold to students within the age group specified in the "Requirements", they should not only meet the chemical safety requirements in the standard, but also meet the "edge and cutting-edge" requirements. According to the relevant requirements of the relevant requirements, the tip of the blade should be the top of the arc, and because of the functional edge of the blade, a warning statement should be provided.
A reporter from the Beijing News purchased several ballpoint pen knives that appeared in the video without any packaging, and there were no trademarks or warning messages on the pen knives.
The pen knife is about 13 cm long.
From the outside, the pen knife is no different from ordinary stationery. The front part of the pen knife body can be rotated to unscrew the nib, and it can write normally.
After removing the pen cap at the back section, a knife body with a length of about 6 cm and a width of about 1 cm is exposed. The tip of the knife is sharp and the blade is sharp, which can easily pierce 20 stacked A4 papers.
On November 15, a reporter from the Beijing News searched for the keyword "ballpoint pen knife" on Taobao, JD.com, Pinduoduo, Xianyu, Douyin, Kuaishou and other platforms. The price of the pen knife ranges from 7 yuan to 25 yuan, and the product name is marked with words such as "multifunctional self-defense pen knife", "mini portable weapon" and "hidden student ballpoint pen knife".
The reporter randomly entered a Taobao store and found that the monthly sales volume of the pen knife reached more than 100 orders.
A reporter from the Beijing News contacted the store's customer service as a buyer, and the other party said: "This pen knife is actually very convenient for students to use." Now there are many stationery online stores that wholesale this pen knife, "(sales) hundreds of thousands There must be."
The customer service told the reporter that this pen knife is small and concealed, and can pass security checks. In the comment area, some people posted pictures saying that this pen knife can be carried on a train.
When the reporter asked where the penknife came from, the other party said that the penknife was produced in its own factory and sent a picture of the penknife's packaging.
The reporter noticed that the package did not display any information, but was simply packaged with white cardboard, and no danger warnings were printed on it.
The reporter contacted Liu Lin (pseudonym), the person in charge of the factory supplying the store, on the grounds of wholesale.
Liu Lin revealed that this pen knife has a history of nearly 20 years. In recent years, due to insufficient production capacity, some orders can only be outsourced, so that the production of this pen knife has gradually expanded.
Liu Lin said that many of her family's outsourcers are family workshops, "These manufacturers are still doing it now."
Wu Yuandong (pseudonym), who sells knives on Taobao, also has a similar penknife, and he has participated in the design of this penknife.
"Actually, my initial intention was to design a self-defense item that can pass security checks and be carried around with you. It can shield security scans, and imaging can't reveal knives. Moreover, this pen knife was defined as stationery at the beginning, and students can also use it in daily life. Use it as a normal pen." Wu Yuandong said that there are two main sales channels for pen knives at present, one is overseas purchasing agents, "there is no such invisible pen knife overseas, and a pen knife can sell for about 100 yuan", the other is wholesale, Sold to stationery dealers everywhere.
Wholesaler
Retail targets are mainly primary and middle school students, some students use pens and knives to compare pictures with others
Wu Yuandong told the Beijing News reporter that he has opened an online store for 6 years, and began to put this pen knife in the store in 2016. "At that time, there were about three or four hundred orders a day." , this pen knife is still on sale normally.
This pen knife has attracted a large number of stationery dealers to wholesale. "Stationery stores and even supermarkets in front of the school sell well." Wu Yuandong said.
Years of retail experience in online stores made Wu Yuandong discover that the retail targets of pen knives are mainly primary and middle school students.
On November 18, Lu Wei (pseudonym), a junior high school student in Jiaozuo, Henan, told the Beijing News reporter that he once saw a boy at school trying to stab someone with this pen knife, but the teacher stopped him in time and confiscated it.
"I asked the classmate who was going to stab someone. His younger brother bought the penknife at the stationery store in front of the school. His younger brother is in elementary school, and five or six people in the class have this kind of penknife."
On November 22, Ou Hang (pseudonym), a fifth-grade student in Cangzhou, Hebei, told the Beijing News reporter that he had seen with his own eyes many female students at the school carrying the penknife that appeared in the video.
He revealed to reporters that "there are (this penknife) sold at the gates of most schools in their local area."
Ou Hang said that those pen knives are very sharp, and girls mainly use pen knives to carve the paste bought at the canteen.
Or play with it, "Hold a pen knife and compare pictures with others."
Stationery shop
There are stationery stores around the campus in Beijing that still sell "carving knife pens"
It is not the first time that dangerous stationery has appeared like a penknife.
As early as the beginning of September this year, the Economic Science and Education Channel of Guangdong Radio and Television Station reported a "cutting knife pen".
This stationery looks like a push-type ballpoint pen in appearance, but when the nib is pressed out, what appears is not a ballpoint pen tip, but a sharp blade about 0.5-0.8 cm long.
A reporter from the Beijing News visited more than a dozen stationery stores in front of primary and secondary schools in Beijing's Fengtai District, Chaoyang District, Dongcheng District, and Haidian District from November 14th to 15th and found that the above-mentioned "cut knife pen" is still for sale.
In fact, cases of dangerous stationery and "poisonous stationery" sold by stationery stores in front of primary and secondary schools are not uncommon.
CCTV News disclosed in 2016 that brightly colored scented erasers were added with phthalates in order to increase the feel. This is a kind of reproductive toxic environmental estrogen, which will interfere with the human endocrine system, through the respiratory system and skin contact. and digestive system damage to the human body.
In January 2021, Xinhua News Agency also reported that Deng Yan, deputy director of the Pediatric Ophthalmology Department of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University in Jiangxi Province, received an emergency call for help: Xiaojun (pseudonym), a 9-year-old elementary school student, was accidentally burned by a laser pointer in his left eye, causing short-term burns. blindness.
The reporter sorted out the reports and found that most of these dangerous stationery and "poisonous stationery" are three-no products, some are specially designed and produced for primary and middle school students, and some come from external markets like pen knives.
Except that some products can be purchased online, schoolside stationery stores have become an important link for such products to flow into the campus.
expert
Putting an end to dangerous stationery requires the joint efforts of parents, school industry and regulators
On November 22, Ma Ping told reporters that during the previous supervision and random inspection tasks, stationery products were also encountered in circulation in the market without the manufacturer's name, address, or trademark.
In response to the above situation, Sun Hongyan, director of the Children's Research Institute of the China Youth Research Center, told the Beijing News reporter, "The place closest to the child should not be allowed to become a place that endangers the healthy growth of the child." To prevent dangerous stationery from entering the campus, parents, A joint effort of schools, industry, and regulators.
Sun Hongyan said that on the one hand, parents should have a sense of safety, and they should evaluate together with their children to judge whether the stationery is healthy or not, and teach children how to look at "fashionable stationery"; teachers should also strengthen their awareness of protecting children. In addition to school regulations, Warning, you should also actively link with parents, "If you find that some students in the class use dangerous items, you can actively give feedback and explanations at the parent group or parent meeting, form a link with the parents, and take the protection of students as your own responsibility"; related to stationery The industry should also be self-disciplined to determine whether a product is harmful to children.
"On the other hand, the relevant administrative departments can further clarify the list of powers and responsibilities, strengthen supervision, and increase law enforcement." Sun Hongyan suggested.
Beijing News reporter Mu Hongju