To improve the quality and safety of children's products, we should unite all parties, put into solid actions, and continuously consolidate the quality and safety line of children's products.
Regulating the children's products market requires both standard escort, strict supervision, and social co-governance.
When buying things for their children, parents are most concerned about safety. On the occasion of the 73rd International Children's Day, the quality and safety of children's products have once again become the focus of the whole society.
In recent years, the quality and safety situation of children's products in China has generally improved. From strengthening product spot checks to formulating and improving the standard system, from strictly enforcing product certification access thresholds to urging enterprises to fulfill recall obligations, relevant departments have taken strong measures to jointly protect children's health. However, some "three no" products and defective products are shoddy and fake, resulting in child safety accidents from time to time. Since last year, the national market supervision system has investigated and dealt with a total of 4371,1978 cases of children's product quality, involving a value of 2.<> million yuan. These data remind us of the importance and urgency of further strengthening the quality and safety supervision of children's products.
To improve the quality and safety of children's products, we should unite all parties, put into solid actions, and continuously consolidate the quality and safety line of children's products.
Regulating the children's products market requires standard escort. In recent years, China has formulated and released more than 130 national standards related to children's and student supplies, covering safety seats, textiles and clothing, furniture, baby carriages and other fields. However, the speed of upgrading children's products is very fast, and "Internet celebrity" toys and blind box products are emerging one after another, often resulting in the introduction of standards that cannot keep up with the pace of product updates, which brings challenges to quality and safety supervision. Relevant departments should follow up the development of the children's and student supplies industry in a timely manner, dynamically track the latest achievements of international technical regulations and standards, and step up the development of standards related to children's and students' supplies in combination with China's industrial development and market demand, so as to protect the health and safety of children and students.
Ensuring the safety of children's products requires strict supervision. There are many kinds of children's and student supplies, in order to timely and accurately discover problem products, it is necessary to comprehensively use quality supervision, law enforcement audit, credit supervision, standard certification, defective product recall, online transaction supervision and other means to strengthen the supervision and random inspection and risk monitoring of children's and student supplies, strengthen the implementation of the main responsibility for quality and safety of production and sales enterprises, and strictly supervise compulsory certification products such as toys and baby carriage products. At the same time, urge e-commerce platforms to perform their statutory responsibilities and obligations, consciously standardize business behavior, and implement joint punishments for violations of laws and regulations by production and sales enterprises, forming a joint regulatory force.
Creating a healthy growth environment requires social co-governance. Protecting the healthy growth of children is not only a matter for parents and families, but also a common responsibility and obligation of all sectors of society. It is necessary to strengthen the communication and connection between relevant departments and industry associations, consumers and other sectors of society, carry out various forms of science popularization activities, and disseminate quality and safety knowledge. It can also openly collect the varieties, inspection items and production and business sites of children's and student supplies that consumers are most concerned about, carry out supervision and spot checks on products with the highest "voter turnout", guide the public to participate in the quality and safety supervision of children's and student supplies, timely release consumption tips, and create a good social co-governance situation.
(Economic Daily, Guo Jingyuan)