With the increasing awareness of consumers' environmental protection, indoor air environmental testing has gradually been recognized by the public. However, consumers who have encountered environmental protection hazards in the furniture they have purchased know that it is a dilemma for furniture to be not tested for environmental protection: if the furniture is not sent for inspection, then consumers will not be able to obtain pollution data. If the furniture is sent for inspection and the destructive testing method makes the furniture basically scrapped, the consumer may have to bear the cost of testing and the expenses for the abandonment of furniture.
Environmental testing will destroy furniture
During the peak season of renovation, many environmental protection inspection agencies in Beijing ushered in the peak period of collecting and testing samples. Mr. Li, who has just renovated his new home, is very difficult to do environmental protection testing. He said: “I have already done the air environmental testing. I can draw conclusions by collecting indoor air samples. But by consulting experts, I dismissed the furniture. The idea of ​​environmental protection testing. Furniture environmental testing needs to extract samples of furniture materials, which will definitely destroy the furniture itself. In that case, it costs both the testing fee and the furniture can no longer be used, so it is still not done."
Although some high-end consumers have strong economic strength and environmental awareness, they will choose to do environmental protection testing for furniture. However, for most consumers, only the smell of furniture is very large and has related consequences, so it is necessary to carry out environmental protection. Detection.
"If there is a problem with the environmental protection of the product, the manufacturer or the store will help me pay the inspection fee of nearly 1,000 yuan. However, if the test result is qualified, then I may face the situation of losing the wife and the soldier. This is really difficult. Accept." Mr. Li said to reporters. At present, many consumers have a lot of confusion about whether there is a problem with furniture environmental protection. Many consumers have to choose to "continue to endure."
Destructive testing is a common means
So is it that the environmental protection of furniture must be at the expense of destroying the product and affecting its future use? Is there any other testing method?
To this end, the reporter interviewed Xiao Cong, a technical staff member of the Beijing Municipal Product Quality Supervision and Inspection Institute. He said: "At present, the state-defined testing method is still a damage test, that is, a sampling test. The conclusion reached in this way is recognized by the state. The current general approach.
Xiao Cong introduced: "If it is the same material, then take a part of the test, such as a drawer. Consumers take the drawer to the inspection office, we take 10 samples of 15 cm × 5 cm in this drawer In general, the practice of detecting drawers has little effect on the use of furniture, and consumers are still acceptable. However, for a piece of furniture made up of multiple materials, if all materials are provided with inspection samples, then It is more destructive to furniture."
So is there any way to not damage the furniture? Xiao Cong said: "This method is available, but the cost of testing is much higher than the destructive testing, even more expensive than the product being inspected. The most important thing is the current state. The relevant standards for non-destructive testing of furniture have not yet been introduced."
New testing standards are expected to be introduced
Recently, the reporter learned from Zhu Changling, vice chairman of the China Furniture Association, and Luo Wei, the director of the Beijing Wood Furniture Quality Supervision and Inspection Station. A new standard for environmental protection testing of furniture, which is more scientific, more rigorous and has more test content, is the climate chamber detection. The law is brewing and is expected to be introduced soon. In addition to solving some of the worries of consumers, the standard will also promote industry progress and accelerate the pace of survival of the fittest in the industry. Luo Wei pointed out that the current environmental protection testing method for furniture is a proportional sampling test method. Since the finished furniture involves many links such as materials, processes and transportation, any looping problem may lead to instability of environmental testing data. The data obtained by the climate chamber detection method in the room with constant temperature and constant humidity can more accurately reflect the overall situation of the furniture submitted for inspection. This method will help consumers to control the environmental protection indicators of furniture more scientifically and rigorously, and also judge the release of harmful substances such as furniture VOC.
Luo Wei said that the climate box test method can place the whole piece of furniture in a specific environment for testing, and the furniture itself will never be damaged to any extent. If the furniture test results are ok, consumers can take it home and continue to use it.
According to the reporter's understanding, the current environmental protection testing methods for furniture cannot completely and accurately determine the release of toxic and hazardous substances in other categories such as metals, glass and software. This loophole has laid a huge hidden danger to the furniture industry. The climate chamber detection method has been properly compensated in this respect, and its measurable scope is wider. Metal, glass, software and other furniture can be obtained through comprehensive testing.
New testing methods will promote the upgrading of the furniture industry
The industry believes that the emergence of new methods and new standards for furniture environmental testing will bring new changes to the entire furniture industry. The new detection method has improved the accuracy of the current environmental testing standards while improving the accuracy of the current testing methods.
Zhu Changling said that if some furniture brands attempted to take advantage of the test process or have luck, then when the new test method is implemented, they will inevitably demand themselves more strictly, and in the selection of materials, materials, processing technology, transportation. More work may be done on links that may cause environmental hazards. This will not only promote the upgrading of furniture products in the market, but also trigger a real elimination campaign. In this war of survival of the fittest, furniture such as metal, glass, and software that have been in the past will also be included and challenged.
Luo Wei also said that this change from testing plates to testing furniture will bring the environmental protection level of the domestic furniture industry to a new level, and enable consumers to buy more reliable products in a more scientific way and bring them to consumers. A better consumer environment.
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