Imported child safety seat failure rate exceeds 30%
The child seat is called the life-saving chair at the crucial moment. On September 1, 2015, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) incorporated children's car safety seat products into mandatory 3C certification. All child safety seat products are not certified by 3C and may not be manufactured, sold, imported or used in other business activities. However, a set of data released a few days ago shows that there are still many quality problems in imported child seats.
Child safety seat sampling failure rate exceeds 30%
The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) recently released a white paper on the inspection of imported children's car safety seats in 2016. Samples of 83 batches of products were sent to the laboratory for testing, and 27 batches of unqualified products were detected, involving 25,000 products, and the failure rate was 32.53%.
In 2016, there were 16 direct entry and exit inspection agencies across the country accepting 994 batches of imported child car seats, 284,500, with a value of 33.294 million US dollars. Imported products mainly come from 19 countries and regions such as Germany, France, the United States, Britain, Italy, China, South Korea, etc. The brands involved are CONâƒCORD, RECARO, CYBEX, GRACO, Besafe, STM, Volvo, Audi and so on.
Direct hitting child safety seat crash test
In the laboratory, the author saw that the inspector first fixed the dummy in the child seat according to the instruction manual, that is, simulating the situation of the child while riding, and then fixing the child safety seat on the test trolley, using the high speed. The camera restores the state of the dummy in the event of a collision. The tester found through data that the Z-direction acceleration of the dummy's chest exceeded the requirements of the national standard. The national standard requirement is 30 per gram. This product has been measured to reach 35.5 per gram, so it is judged to be unqualified.
This indicator is actually a description of the child's chest injury. Once the limit is exceeded, it can be considered that this child seat may cause a great injury to the child's chest during the collision.
There were 4 batches of unqualified products in this sampling test, involving 2 brands, one batch of Avionaut brand from Poland and three batches of kiwy brand from Italy. In addition, in safety-related projects, the corrosion resistance program is related to the protection of children in child safety seats. The test involved a batch of samples with unsatisfactory corrosion resistance and was a children's car seat from Italy under the brand Brevi.
Another unqualified safety performance item tested was combustion performance. The products that were found to have failed in combustion performance were sold in two batches, involving two brands, one batch from the Ridesafer brand in Vietnam and one batch from the RACARO brand in Germany.
20 batches of sample identification labels and instructions, etc. failed
In addition to the unsatisfactory safety performance, there were 20 batches of identification labels and instructions in the 27 batches of samples sent to the laboratory for testing. In the on-site inspection of the entry port, there were 115 batches of products with defects in product identification labels, instructions, and defects in the product itself during transportation.
Expert: When purchasing, you must choose products that meet the national standard of China.
In order to further understand the situation of child safety seats sold in the cross-border e-commerce field, the author logs in Taobao and searches for imported child safety seats. The website displays hundreds of countries and regions from the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Japan, etc. Different brands.
The author saw on the website that most of the products in the product details have marked their own products through various international certifications including China's 3C certification, and some merchants did not show their own product certification, the author found a no The online store displaying the 3C certificate asked the customer service. The customer service said that since their products were not listed on the domestic market, they did not apply for 3C certification. But the customer service stressed that because they are American brands, their seats passed the strict inspection of NHTSA, which is the US Highway Safety Administration.
In this regard, experts reminded that as a safety-related product, the child safety seat itself has its own special characteristics. Consumers still have to choose products that meet the national standard of China when purchasing, to avoid damage caused by mistakes in installation and use.
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