2024-10-01 02:11:53
Warning on some LED toys. According to the National Agency for Food, Environment and Occupational Health Safety (ANSES), the European standard on toy safety does not currently guarantee eye protection for children, which requires its review.
Many of these objects – stuffed animals, dolls, drawing tablets, trucks, spinning tops or even electronic board games – contain LEDs, which emit blue light. This light can affect the retina and disrupt biological rhythms, including sleep, if exposed in the evening and at night.
“Children whose eyes do not fully filter blue light are more susceptible to these risks”, underlines, is printed Tu, ANSESRemembering that you have been warning about the effects of LEDs on vision since 2010.
Requested by the French Ministry of Health, ANSES tested the new version of the European standard on the safety of electric toys, updated in 2020. After evaluating the new procedure for ensuring the safety of the eyes of the toys that in LED, he concluded that “The revised version does not guarantee compliance with the values that ensure the safety of children’s eyes”.
ANSES has been identified “Too many mistakes” in the scientific research on which the process is based, errors “Which may cause said toys to exceed exposure limit values”such as press release.
More toys would have failed with the 2005 standard
He also conducted tests on a sample of nineteen LEDs found in toys on the market. They have it “Confirming that the 2020 version of the standard is less safe than the previous one, since 2005: eight of the tested toys could not have been placed on the market with the 2005 version of the standard, due to the past safety requirements, compared to just one with that of 2020”agency information.
Given the health issues associated with the exposure of children to high levels of blue light and the importance of a standard to guarantee the safety of the toys they sell”ANSES recommends initiation “fast” revision of the relevant part of the European regulation. In the meantime, he recommends a temporary return to the 2005 version to check the eye protection of the toys in question.
To protect children from these risks, ANSES also reminds that it is advisable to limit exposure to blue or white LEDs, and to avoid bright toys two hours before bedtime, so as not to disrupts biological rhythms and sleep.
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