Inappropriate indication of life jacket for children Tokyo Metropolitan Government orders prevention of recurrence December 18th 18:01
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government ordered the company to prevent recurrence, as the children's life jacket manufactured by a company in Osaka Prefecture did not have the buoyancy as shown.
Ramesses, a company in Osaka Higashi-Osaka City, which manufactures outdoor products, received an order based on the prize labeling law.
According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the life jacket for children manufactured by this company is a life jacket for small vessels, which is stipulated in national regulations such as “can withstand a weight of 5 kg for more than 24 hours” in the instruction manual. It was displayed that it had the performance of.
However, in March, when an experiment was carried out in which a weight of 5 kilograms was attached to this life jacket and floated on water, it sank in about 20 seconds.
After that, we asked the company for materials showing the basis of the labeling, but since it was not submitted within the deadline, the capital was shown to be better than the actual one, and based on the prize labeling law, the prevention of recurrence etc. I ordered.
In Tokyo, when choosing a life jacket, use the national or third-party certification mark as a guideline to call attention to avoiding the display.