Mon, Nov 16 06:21 AM
In a major exercise, all toys — whether manufactured in India or abroad — available in the domestic market will be screened for toxicity under the guidance of the ICMR by experts of the National Institute of Occupational Health (NIOH), Ahmedabad, National Institute of Nutrition (NIN), Hyderabad, and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.

The exercise comes following the Supreme Court taking an interest in ascertaining the level of pigments used to coat toys. According to experts, most India- and China-made toys are coated with substances comprising heavy metals such as lead and cadmium, which can be poisonous and even affect the brain. NIN officials informed, even as Chinese toys have been banned, the issue has become moiré urgent after Chinese toy manufacturing industries approached an international court to lift the ban.

Sources at NIOH said that they have begun collecting toys from metropolitan cities across India, including Ahmedabad.

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But what about the toys manufactured in our own villaged, brightly painted in the most toxic colors. LOL

radhika nandlal Hanung toys does not make metal or wooden toys so they dont use any chemical.They mafr only soft toys like teddy bear.

It is ofcourse critical to check the toxicity of the paints used for coloring toys but has anybody thought of the colors used for making food. Most local ones are not food grade colors and highly toxic.

I dont want any teddybears in India.

All of India`s poverty is on account of those teddy bears in malls making real estate unaffordable for the middle class and the poor.

If u dnt like teddy bear and malls which make real estate prohibitive go to forest areas like Bastar u wl get cheap land and wl get real bears instead of teddy bears.