Sale of 77 toys suspended after inspection finds lead, other issues
The Agency inspected 8,146 toys from 45 sellers in regular monitoring efforts between 2021-2022. Photo: hip2save.com
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A children’s nail polish set, a xylophone and eight types of slimes are among 77 toys suspended from sale on the domestic market after an inspection revealed lead, peeling paint and other issues with the items, local media outlet Interpressnews reported on Monday.
IPN said the Market Surveillance Agency of the Ministry of Economy had found a "number of inconsistencies" in the toys offered by 31 sellers.
The inspectors found 191.8 mg/kg of lead in a nail polish set from the MEI BO KAI brand, which it said was 95.9 times above the limit permitted by regulations.
Another laboratory examination found paint was peeling off a xylophone musical toy by the brand Mut, which the agency said could cause blockage of upper airways in children using it.
Eight types of slimes were found to contain boron migration above the upper limits set by regulations, with the body noting some of the samples had shown the consistency exceeding the set amount by “10 and even 30 times”.
In addition, an inspection of 13 different toys intended for children under the age of three found the items had small moving parts and therefore posed a risk to children if swallowed.
The Agency also said it had inspected 8,146 toys from 45 sellers in regular monitoring efforts between 2021-2022.
The National Food Agency of Georgia on Wednesday warned customers who have purchased Chinese-made ceramic plates from the Junior series by Ambition at Domino hypermarket in Tbilisi, after lead was detected in the product following testing.
UN Environment, World Health Organisation, the US Environment Protection Agency and other partners have teamed up to assist Georgia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan in the establishment and implementation of a regulation on lead paint.
The Adjara government in western Georgia, with the support of UNICEF Georgia, has launched a pilot project to investigate the source of lead exposure in children between two and seven years of age.
The lead level in children’s blood has gone down, the Head of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Amiran Gamkrelidze stated today.
The National Food Agency on Thursday announced it had suspended the production process for ready-to-eat products at Nikora Trade, a part of the Nikora Holding that runs a number of supermarkets and meat production facilities across the country.
The National Food Agency of Georgia on Wednesday announced it had received an ISO certificate in recognition of the body’s quality management system.
Georgia is committed to addressing lead poisoning “comprehensively” and with “a united global community” it can achieve “greater results”, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said on Wednesday in his remarks at the World Economic Forum panel discussion - Towards a Lead-Free Future.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said lead poisoning “stands out” as one of the “most pressing” public health challenges in the world, including in Georgia, at the panel discussion titled Towards a Lead-Free Future, held on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.