Pudong launches a special campaign to control the quality and safety of children's and student supplies, safeguarding the start of the school season
Guarding the start of the school season
In order to further strengthen the supervision of the quality and safety of children's products, since August 1st this year, the Pudong Market Supervision Bureau has continued to carry out the 2023 "Guarding the Quality and Safety of Children and Student Supplies" special governance action. Through a series of combined measures such as publicity and training, law enforcement and case handling, and supervision and sampling, relevant illegal behaviors are strictly punished, promoting the healthy development of the industry, and safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of the youth group.
As an important reading and writing tool for students, the writing pen can be used by everyone and every day. The safety of the pen cap is particularly important, as unqualified products can easily lead to safety accidents if a child accidentally swallows the pen cap. In February 2023, the Market Supervision Bureau of Pudong New Area conducted spot checks on neutral pens commissioned by a certain cultural goods Co., Ltd. The testing report shows that the "pen cap safety" item of the neutral pen involved in the case does not meet the requirements of GB21027-2020 "General Safety Requirements for Student Supplies" and has been judged as an unqualified product. The Pudong Market Supervision Bureau has investigated and dealt with the case. After the incident, the parties involved recalled the products involved and rectified the remaining inventory and recalled products, which have been inspected and found to be qualified.
It is reported that during the "Guarding the Beginning of School Season" special action, the Pudong Market Supervision Bureau dispatched nearly 500 law enforcement personnel, inspected 31 children's and student supplies production enterprises, inspected 188 sales enterprises such as supermarkets and toy cultural and creative stores within a 200 meter radius of the campus, conducted 13 administrative guidance and interviews, and carried out more than 30 publicity and training activities.
In the "Love Summer Care Class", law enforcement officers introduced common safety risks, product standards, and purchasing knowledge of children's toys and learning supplies to students, informed them of feedback channels for defective products, and further improved the ability of teenagers to distinguish between qualified and unqualified products through physical identification, which was welcomed by students, parents, and teachers. Law enforcement officers also entered hospitals and large children's toy sales malls to promote the quality and safety of children's toy products, and gathered children's toy and student stationery operators around the school for quality and safety training. During the special action, the Pudong Market Supervision Bureau conducted a total of 50 batches of district level product inspections for children's toys and 35 batches of school uniforms for primary and secondary school students. Currently, it has entered the testing phase.
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The reporter learned that since the implementation of the three-year action plan for the quality and safety protection of children and student supplies in Shanghai, the Pudong Market Supervision Bureau has sampled 217 batches of children and student related products and carried out post-processing work on unqualified products. A total of 56 cases related to the quality of children's and student supplies were filed and 54 cases were closed. Among them, one case was selected as a typical case published by the General Administration, and two cases were selected as typical cases of children's related products published by the Municipal Bureau.
Next, the Pudong Market Supervision Bureau will adhere to the concept of balancing supervision and service, and make efforts at both the enterprise and regulatory ends, effectively consolidating the main responsibility of enterprises, conducting in-depth publicity of typical cases, continuously improving the law enforcement and case handling mechanism, further strengthening safety risk prevention and control, and weaving a solid quality and safety "protection net".
Text: Liu Yawen
*Reprinted from official WeChat account released by Pudong