A few days ago, still in kindergarten more and more accidentally broke the bowl to eat, the more mother rejoice in the ceramic fragments didn’t hurt more and more at the same time, determined to give more and more to buy two new bowl. She came to the supermarket in front of the display cabinet for children’s tableware and picked up two plastic and cartoon dishes. The more she loves his new bowl.

Children’s plastic products are used by many families because of their light quality, beautiful beauty and resistance to fall. Many parents will also buy plastic cups and plastic bowls for children. However, there are many brands of children’s tableware in the market. It’s hard to judge whether the products are safe and hygienic by the naked eye. What should parents pay attention to when they choose the tableware for their babies?
Children’s tableware is mostly plastic
Cartoon style is favored by parents
In view of the market demand, many manufacturers have launched children’s special tableware. In the market of children’s tableware brands, materials involved in stainless steel, polypropylene, melamine, ceramics, glass, wood etc., round, oval, polygon and so on, most of the material is plastic, bright color.
Li Ayi, a salesman in the supermarket, told reporters: “most parents buy colorful plastic tableware for their children.”
The investigation reporter found that the children’s tableware in the entity shop is mainly mainly plastic products. The hard plastic products with melamine material, the hardness and ceramic products almost, because of bright color, not brittle characteristics by the parents and children’s favorite, soft plastic products are polypropylene (PP) material.
In addition to the entity store, there are also Internet shops in the management of children’s tableware. The reporter entered the search for “children’s tableware” on Taobao online, and found that 128 thousand and 900 items were on sale. In a shop called “hellokitty Beigie creative living room”, a plastic bowl of 13.5 yuan helloKitty plastic children’s plastic bowl is sold. The shopkeeper told reporters that most of the children’s tableware in the store were helloKitty, and cartoon patterns were easy to attract the attention of the baby.
90 novice Mommy Xiao Ying also told reporters: “my son is 15 months old, he began training to eat, go to the supermarket and buy a few days ago, found that children I feel every kind of tableware, lovely cartoon patterns and bright colors can stimulate the baby’s visual organ, to attract more of his own dinner, I finally bought the mickey mouse pattern on the plastic bowl and spoon.”

Some businesses in order to seize the hearts of parents, even an ordinary spoon, the spoon handle will print cartoon.
The purchase of children’s plastic tableware should be prudent
Parents choose to pay attention to three points
Children’s tableware with plastic material is favored by parents, but the hidden danger of security can not be ignored. Recently, the reporter learned from the Zhejiang inspection and Quarantine Bureau of Taizhou learned that the production and export of a Taizhou enterprise was informed of the EU RASFF children’s plastic bowl system, printing film consumer complaints reporting the reasons is inside the plastic bowl stripping and fade, such as direct contact with food to use, may be due to ink substance contamination to the food, cause harm to human health.
According to the reporter, this year 1-8 the end of the month, the EU RASFF system of Chinese producing plastic products (food contact notification) launched 37 times, including nylon and melamine kitchenware was informed more, informed the reasons of primary aromatic amines and formaldehyde exceed the standard in material migration, film peeling, color transfer and surface coating etc..
Zhejiang inspection and Quarantine Bureau personnel told reporters that the detection of safety and hygiene items for plastic products is a simulation of the amount of chemicals precipitated during the use of products such as water, vinegar and oil. If these substances exceed the standard, the long-term intake of the human body, especially children, can cause damage to the kidney, liver, nervous system and digestive system.
So, what are the problems that parents should pay attention to when choosing children’s tableware? The inspection and quarantine department reminding:
1, as far as possible in the regular shopping malls, the plastic products sold in these places generally meet the corresponding safety and health standards.
2, try to choose bright colored products, and avoid the purchase of food contact surfaces with ink or paint film coating products.

3, try not to use plastic products for a long time to hold acidic, oily, alkaline and other foods to prevent the excessive precipitation of toxic and harmful substances.