Closing the Gaps: Ensuring Children’s Safety from Toxic Toys

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  □ Li Yingfeng (Lawyer)
  According to media reports, popular soft clay toys for children, such as squeeze play, crystal mud, bubble glue, and fake water, pose a threat to children's health. These "toxic toys" have entered the market and occupied a considerable space mainly due to gaps or weaknesses in multiple defensive lines such as production, sales, and supervision.
  Children's health and safety is no small matter. Market supervision departments, production and sales enterprises, e-commerce platforms, and other responsible parties must work together to contain "toxic toys" and eliminate their space for existence.
  In terms of standards, it is necessary to further improve compulsory national standards in the toy safety field, dynamically adjust to cover new types of toys, and use standards to close supervision gaps. At the production stage, measures such as reward reporting should be strengthened to comprehensively eliminate and dynamically crack down on "black workshops" producing toys.
  In the distribution stage, for toys that receive numerous complaints and have higher risks to quality and safety, expand the coverage of random inspections, increase the frequency of inspections, and establish a blacklist system based on inspection results. E-commerce platforms should verify the business qualifications of merchants, and if toys of unknown origin are found, measures such as removing products and restricting accounts should be taken, and timely reports made to market supervision departments.