A joint inspection team of Ho Chi Minh City Friday raided many toyshops in District 5 and 6 and suspended the sale of four types of Chinese bouncing, knobby balls due to their excessive content of a cancer-causing chemical.
The inspection came after local media reported that several Chinese toys, including fruit-head dolls, knobby balls, animal ride-on toys, and radio-controlled toy cars, have been found to have way higher content of phthalate, a chemical that can cause cancer and infertility in men, than allowed.
At the raided toyshops, inspectors found Chinese toys on sale without the required label in Vietnamese and the CR (Conformity to Regulation) stamps, as well as information about the importers.
The phthalate content of the ball, made of plastic and covered with small lumps, is 400,000 mg/kg, or 400 times higher than the standardized rate of 1,000 mg/kg in the EU and the US.
The inspectors thus asked the toyshops to stop selling four types of knobby balls and took samples of five other toys, including the flexible plastic duck toys, for toxic tests.
Also on Friday, the Southern Product Quality Management Agency sent documents to the quality watchdog agencies in the southern provinces and cities, asking them to inspect the sale of the toxic knobby balls in their localities.
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