FDA Monitoring of Children's Laser Pointer Safety

Laser is everywhere, it is also possible touched by children. 

Children are always seen as the newborn sun at eight or nine clock in the morning, which means that children are our hope, children are our future. Thus we should try our best to protect children to make sure they live in a safety and health condition. Children safety problem has always been paid close attention by the public. For it is well known that children are our future. In the children safety problem, children's toys security gets more and more attention. The plenty of children's toys accidents make everybody have recognition about it. Recently, FDA issued a draft guidance documents. The draft aims to tell public, children's advocates and children's toys manufacturers the attitude and policy of FDA in the treatment of children's safety. In the draft, the main aimed at the children safety is laser products safety issues. 

Laser is a high-tech product with inconceivable power. Laser safety standards are varying. Now federal law case specification stipulate that all laser products sold in the United States must com ply with federal performance standards of laser products. While FDA has no special regulation about children laser products. Recently FDA comes up with a motion to make meaning to the laser products for children and stipulate that the laser products must conform to the luminous limit of International Electro technical Commission Class 1. The FDA is still working for the rulemaking. The purpose of the rule is to courage manufacturers to follow the luminous limit of children laser products, for the sake of reducing the risk of laser toys. 

The draft refers to the toy designed, produced and promoted for the children under 14 years old. Such toys are equipped with laser, such as cap pistol with laser for collimation; the spinning top that can emit laser beam while turning; the handheld laser device like laser sword; the fixed cylinder that can emit jumped laser beam and also the entertainment laser with gorgeous optics effects. They are all the amazing laser products. FDA believe that the radiation quantity of laser must be inferior to the luminous limit of the federal laser products performance Class 1 or the level of International Electrotechnical Commission Class 1 , which set according to the operate, maintenance, service , disabled and damaged condition. Within these standards, the risk for the user is the lowest. The current standard has no special mention to laser, but laser is an important part, because it laser could hurt your eyesight.

Come so far, the cap doesn't stipulate that children laser toy must accompany with Class 1 label. While the opposite is, FDA encourages manufacturers to stick labels on products to make customers aware of the risk clearly. FDA indicates that unless the parts of toy with laser can be removed, as well as can emit laser alone, otherwise the whole toys shall be regarded as laser products. Relevant products must obtain product certificate. Children toy safety is waiting to be solved. Buying a safety laser pointer with FDA label is necessary. Well, please allow me to recommend you with www.highlasers.com. It is a professional and reliable laser devices supplier and all of the laser products sold from their company are all certificated by FDA, the most authoritative safety organization. 

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