Unsafe children’s products: Nibble forbidden!

As a parent, it can make a really afraid of what the Foundation were published test there on Thursday in Berlin. Whether wheels, car seats for children, high chairs or only the Crayons: Every fourth product for the Little ones, according to the Stiftung Warentest is not only unsafe, but is in part the danger of Accidents, pollutant-loaded or failed data security.

Stiftung Warentest has evaluated the collected Tests of children’s products from the years 2017 and 2018, and the end result comes to a startling. Of 278 products from 15 studies 79 serious security problems. This is 28%. All the Tests of the Foundation calculated the average of the defect’s defective products, therefore, at around 7 percent. The assessment “poor” have often also for reasons other than safety defects.

children’s products in Germany, thus cut in terms of safety, significantly worse than all the other consumer goods. Example children’s car seat: A test seat broke, therefore, the frontal impact of its base and flew in a high arc through the laboratory, and in the case of the other of the hook of the Isofix bracket. Also in the case of children caution-chairs: The Small slides, for example, through the seat down and with the head in the chair. Only three out of 20 children tested have high chairs, according to the Foundation, is recommended.

John Torrendo

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