Before and after the new term, the number of students and parents in shopping malls, stationery shops and other places is increasing, and they have to buy various stationery. Reporter discovers, the novelty stationery such as stationery blind box, super light clay, toy is placed conspicuous position, in order to solicit a child. Do these various stationery and toys have any trick, how is the quality? And how to select and use?

Blind boxes of stationery are prominently displayed in stores. Stationery blind box popular routines are also many.

At a cultural and creative grocery store named "Nine Wood Sundries" in the shopping mall, pens, notebooks, schoolbags, revision tapes, notepads... A wide range of stationery is attractive, the most conspicuous of which is a variety of beautifully packaged stationery in blind boxes, which are placed on the shelves near the door.

The reporter noticed that conan, Harry Potter, the Avengers and other popular children's characters were printed on the packaging of blind stationery boxes, which were colorful and varied. The price of a blind box pen was 3.5-6 yuan, and the price of stationery collection bag was 25-40 yuan, which attracted an endless number of students. "There were so many repetitions, I bought it many times before I came across a hidden item." A stationery is buying blind box primary school told reporters.

It is understood that many blind boxes are composed of ordinary and hidden money. This primary school student tells a reporter, some classmate in order to get conceal money, buy all sorts of on the net and stationer buy buy, around spent nearly 1000 yuan.

The China Consumer Association once issued a consumption reminder, young people are curious, like to keep up with the Joneses, consumption concept is not mature, easy to blind box "addiction". Compared with ordinary commodities, blind boxes have strong information asymmetry, and consumers can only rely on the advertising of merchants to choose and buy, which is easy to be misled by the false propaganda of merchants such as exaggerated commodity value and fictitious winning probability.

In the process of learning, many children often unconsciously bite the pen cap. This seemingly insignificant action can inadvertently threaten a child's life.

Reporters observed that whether automatic pencils, water pens or ballpoint pens, some of their caps are sealed, some with holes. This hole is called the vent hole, and it has another name, the life-saving hole. Some children like to bite the pen cap, accidentally will suck the pen cap into the throat, the trachea, if there is no air vent, the pen cap stuck in the throat, blocked in the trachea, the child can not breathe. If professional first aid is not taken immediately, tragedy is likely.

The reporter learned that, in order to avoid the risk of children swallowing, "general requirements for the safety of student supplies" has been clearly stipulated, the diameter of writing pen cap less than 16mm should be punched or have ventilation area.

In addition to stationery, some popular online toys are also very popular. Ultralight clay is one of the toys that many parents and children make by hand.

The reporter bought 5 different brands of ultra-light clay from the e-commerce platform and sent it to the authoritative quality inspection institute for detection. The detection personnel focused on formaldehyde, aromatic amine, heavy metals and preservatives and other 4 indicators to do detection on them. The test results showed that the heavy metal boron element was detected in 5 types of ultra-light clay, and the content of boron in 2 types of ultra-light clay exceeded the standard obviously.

Because China has no specific safety standards for such goods, some ultra-light clay on the market is produced according to enterprise standards, some are produced according to toy standards, good and bad are mixed.

Not long ago, Shandong province issued the first group standard for toy Modeling clay and gel, setting the strictest index requirements for related toys, which is in line with the European Union and other international standards. According to the standard, molding clay and gel toys are divided into excellent and qualified products according to different boron limits.

Do not choose "three without" and appearance level too high stationery

So, how to choose stationery for children? The China Consumer Association has issued a reminder to students and parents on the safe purchase and use of stationery: when choosing stationery for children, we must choose qualified products produced by well-known manufacturers.

When choosing a writing pen, you should choose a writing pen with an air vent cap and an air vent to ventilate.

Be careful to buy fancy, decorative "toy stationery", as these stationery can be swallowed by children, choking risk.