IKEA recall events reflect the "little adults" furniture hidden trouble

Posted by Liu Yi over 6 months ago

IKEA recently recalled some of the chest drawer products in foreign news, triggering social concern for children's furniture safety issues. June 6, Shanghai Consumer Protection Committee and the Consumer Protection Committee furniture special committee unannounced visits to the large home stores in Shanghai,rattan effect garden dining set the reporter followed the unannounced visits found that those who clearly marked "children's furniture" brand , In the safety and warnings have done more in place, but those "small adults" furniture, the frequent name of the safe "edge ball." In the real North Road, a large furniture store, the reporter followed the Consumer Protection Committee staff came to the 6th floor of the children's furniture area, for some easy to flip the cabinet products made a sampling. Reporters found at the scene, a height of about 1 meter in the cabinet,promo dry clothes stand online as long as the pull out of the drawer down a little press, the cabinet will be dumping because of the center of gravity instability. City Consumers Protection Committee Furniture Professional Office Wang Weibin told reporters, according to the 2012 promulgated the "children's furniture general technical conditions" (GB28007-2011), in order to prevent the use of some cabinet products in the dumping, requiring all high tables and height greater than 60 cm cabinet products, should provide a fixed product on the building of the connection, and in the instructions to use the installation method. Reporters found that those who express the "children's furniture" brand in the security done well, but in another adult furniture sales area, a lot of look is to children to use the "little adults" furniture, security is not flattered, Some cabinets are not reinforced by connectors,portable beach picnic aluminium moon chair with carrybag sharp edges of furniture, edges and corners may also cause harm to children. "Compared to adult furniture standards, the biggest difference is that children's furniture is to increase the safety and warning of the two large pieces of content, with particular emphasis on furniture dumping, closed, sharp edges and other security aspects of the standard." Wang Weibin said that in recent years they Visits also found that "small adults" furniture does not express their own "children's furniture",folding high-top bistro table so difficult to be standard "bound."In the safety of children's furniture, the survey shows that consumer awareness is not optimistic. In this regard, the city Consumer Protection Committee relevant person in charge that the manufacturers in addition to the children's furniture safety standards in place, but also need to do to inform the obligation to the consumer that the product exists in the security risks and provide on-site installation.