LED lamp string exports to the EU quality and safety issues can not be ignored

According to the EU non food consumer products rapid alert system (RAPEX) statistics show that in 2012 was informed on case as high as 43 light production Chinese, 1-8 months of this year, the product was informed the number has reached 39 times, involving informed EU countries up to 12. The United States and Canada and other countries have also been a number of lights on the existence of security risks for the release of our products bulletin.

The main reasons for the quality and safety of the lamp string are the following three aspects:

1 low barriers to entry led to increased quality risk. Europe and the United States and other developed countries in the West for a large number of holiday lights, and the string of consumers in the normal use of the process is easy to be touched, once the accident caused great harm. And part of the production enterprise technical force is weak, the lack of perfect quality control system, the foreign standards of various types of coping ability is very limited, may cause the product design requirements and the actual application conditions of the deviation, once the products prior to export without the necessary testing, there will be more quality problems.

2 design defects become the main source of high quality problems. From the analysis of the situation, the main quality problems of the lamp string include the risk of electric shock, fire and burn risk and structural defects. Among them, the safety distance and the poor insulation performance are the main quality problems, which can easily lead to electric shock accidents, which also indicates that the internal structure of such products has serious defects.

3 health, environmental protection projects to become a new risk point. Since the implementation of the RoHS directive in 2005, the restriction of substances has been increasing, the scope of the matter has been expanded, and a variety of harsh conditions have been written into the new directive. At the same time, the provisions of the Member States must in January 2, 2013 before the RoHS2.0 update to the local law. In the thirty-fourth phase of this year's RAPEX bulletin, a German LED light string due to excessive lead content in the solder lead to the goods at the port was refused entry.