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The sweeping new toy safety rules will also mean that all toys sold in the EU will be slapped with a ‘digital product passport’ in the form of a QR code displaying its compliance with EU safety laws.
Children’s squeaky plastic toys, trucks, blocks and dolls contain chemicals which are harmful to health, such as PFAS, also known as ‘forever chemicals’, as well as other hazardous substances like bisphenols.
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Recently, the Commission said they would take a “holistic” approach to regulating large e-commerce platforms like Shein, and Norway is mulling a crackdown on Temu, including a possible ban, over the sale of toxic toys.
A recent investigation by Toy Industries Europe into unbranded toys sold online found that 80% of toys examined by the group failed to meet EU safety standards, including products purchased from Amazon, Wish and AliExpress.
So European companies are forced to comply with this, but Chinese companies get a free pass to ignore… Wonderful.
The legislation targets everything sold in the eu, no matter where the seller is from
The article mentions aliexpress and wish. Those things are not sold in the EU. They are sold in China. The customer imports them directly from China. The customer is circumventing the regulations and should be aware of that.
This is also one of the reasons Chinese crap is so cheap. EU products have to pass multiple safety checks before they can be sold, which can cost 5 digits or more that has to be added to the price. Chinese can just use the cheapest lead paint and asbestos they can get.