Many shops in HCMC sell unregistered toys
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The Ho Chi Minh City Market Management Department has recently found many toy shops citywide are selling toys without a safety guarantee stamp as required by the law.
Although the regulation requiring toy sellers to place the CR (Conformity of Regulation) safety guarantee stamp on their products has been put in to use for a year, only a few toy sellers in some supermarkets and trade centers follow this order.
Upon investigating 4 toy shops in District 6, the market management team has discovered thousands of unregistered toys with unknown origins.
Most of the products in these toy shops were also found as having no CR safety guarantee stamps. And the shop owners did not place the price tags on their product either.
The market management team has seized all the products of the violating stores. These toys will undergo a quality test at the Quality Assurance and Testing Center 3 (Quatest 3) afterward.
At present, as many as 80 to 90 percent of the children’s toys available in the toy stores in District 5, 6 and Phu Nhuan are from foreign manufacturers, mostly China. These toys have various forms and shapes, and are greatly favorable to children.
Prohibited toys like guns and swords are no longer displayed openly, but some toy shops said they could still provide these weapon toys in mass at customer’s request.
