Children paint known as "environmental protection" has been difficult to trace

In recent years, with the continuous improvement of consumer demand, more and more building materials have been playing "environmental protection cards" on the home improvement market. Even paint manufacturers took the opportunity to launch “children's lacquer” with “greener” as the selling point, and the price was naturally higher than ordinary products.

However, the reporter recently visited the paint market and found that Yucheng’s homeowners’ consumption has become increasingly rational. After a storm, apart from individual brands still being sold, the vast majority of “children's paint” has been hard to find.

Once known as "the most environmentally friendly"

Recently, Mr. Xin, who lives in Yinzhou District, has begun preparations for the renovation of a new house. With a daughter of nearly three years old, his wife remembered the "children's paint" that merchants had been pushing for a few years ago. "Now there are too many reports of excessive formaldehyde levels in furniture and building materials. It is scary to watch, so it is better to spend more money to ensure the safety of your home."

According to statistics, children's room decoration materials have become invisible killers of children's respiratory diseases, and the hidden danger of paint pollution is greatest among these materials.

"Generally speaking, the word "children" may feel better quality and more assurance." Mr. Yan told reporters, but it is not really more environmentally friendly and it is worth spending a high price. He also said it was unclear. It is precisely based on this demand that in recent years, the “greenest” and “safety-free” children's paints on the domestic paint market came into being.

The market has been hard to find but in recent days, Mr. Lou strolled around the home improvement market and found that many children's paints that had been pushed by the brand had been hard to find on the market.

“Children's lacquer is too expensive, and a barrel of 5L is more than 200 yuan higher than ordinary paint. There are not many people to buy. So now it is not sold or pushed.” Yesterday morning, the reporter visited Jiangdong Modern Paint Market. At the time, a sales representative of a brand paint store said.

It is understood that the brand has pushed a children's bamboo charcoal paint for the first few years, the price is about 698 yuan, while the ordinary full-cost paint bamboo charcoal price is only 498 yuan, the former is a high price of nearly 40%.

“There are many children paint on the market in the first two years, and they are known to have a variety of different names.” Another paint general manager told reporters that some painters call children paint, others call BB paint, others call wonderful paint, etc. There are nearly 10 species, "but now there is almost no, because in fact the composition is almost the same, but the consumer does not buy it."

Afterwards, the reporter visited several paint shops and found that only one brand shop was selling children's paint. However, its price is not cheap, a barrel of 5L installed price is 998 yuan, and does not discount, is nearly 2 times the ordinary paint.

There is no reference standard for children's lacquer. "Our children's paint is in conformity with European and American toy paint standards, and it is safer and more environmentally friendly than ordinary paint that only meets the national standard." The sales staff of the above brand shop explained to the reporter why children paint more expensive, but There is no clear answer to the question of the difference between the two components.

“Actually, the paints are now environmentally friendly. As long as formaldehyde, heavy metals and other harmful substances are not detected, they can all be used in children’s rooms.” said the paint store manager, “If we have to say that children paint has a distinctive feature, Maybe it is wear-resistant, but in fact other types of paint can also achieve this effect," and recommend several common wear-resistant paint to reporters.

It is understood that the current market is still applied in 2008 "the interior decoration materials in the limited amount of harmful substances in interior paints", which does not have children's paint specifications.

A teacher with many years of experience in paint painting told reporters that in practice, children's paint and ordinary paint are not much different. From the point of view of composition alone, it can be said that there is no difference, and it is difficult to be completely non-toxic. After painting, you should ventilate for a period of time before you live. Do not easily believe the concept of 'more environmentally friendly' and 'completely non-toxic'."