{"id":5408,"date":"2018-12-13T05:18:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T05:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/hamleys-pulls-slime-toy-amid-safety-fears\/"},"modified":"2018-12-13T05:18:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T05:18:47","slug":"hamleys-pulls-slime-toy-amid-safety-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/hamleys-pulls-slime-toy-amid-safety-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamleys pulls slime toy amid safety fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Which?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    Hamleys has stopped selling Frootiputti slime<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hamleys has stopped selling a children&#8217;s slime toy after the product failed a safety test for boron, a chemical that can impair fertility.<\/p>\n<p>Tests by consumer group Which? found that Frootiputti slime, made by Goobands and sold at Hamleys, had four times the EU limit for boron in toys.<\/p>\n<p>The retailer said it was a &#8220;precautionary measure&#8221; while it investigated further. <\/p>\n<p>Which? said it had tested 13 slimes and found six broke the rules on boron. <\/p>\n<p>These included slimes bought from Smyths Toys Superstores and Amazon, as well as a product classified as a putty from Argos.   <\/p>\n<p>Slime became one of 2017&#8217;s biggest crazes, with millions of people sharing pictures on Instagram and watching DIY slime-making videos on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>But many of the toys use the mineral borax, which contains boron, to help create their stickiness. <\/p>\n<p>Over-exposure to boron can cause skin irritation, diarrhoea, vomiting and cramps. At very high levels it may also affect fertility or cause harm to unborn children in pregnant women.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                 <span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Which?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    HGL&#8217;s Ghostbusters slime had more than three times the limit<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption body-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"story-body__crosshead\">Examples of slimes tested by Which?<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">The DIY Slime Kit, made by Essenson and available from Amazon, contained a purple slime that had four-and-half times the legal level of boron. <\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">HGL&#8217;s Ghostbusters slime, which can be bought in Smyths Toys Superstores, had more than three times the limit. <\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Fun foam, made by Zuru Oosh and sold by Argos also broke EU rules on boron <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption body-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Which? said all of the products carried CE certification, suggesting manufacturers were labelling unsafe products as safe.<\/p>\n<p>It also warned some slimes were being marketed as putties, allowing them to pass safety tests more easily. The EU safety limit is 300mg\/kg for slime and 1200mg\/kg for putty. <\/p>\n<p>Responding to the results one manufacturer, Jexybox, said it would take all of its slime products off Ebay.<\/p>\n<p>HGL and Goobands argued that their products were actually putty, not slime, and met EU safety standards. <\/p>\n<p>Like Hamleys, Amazon said it had stopped selling the products flagged by Which? while Argos said it was investigating the findings. <\/p>\n<p>Nikki Stopford, director of research and publishing at Which?, said: &#8220;Parents should have confidence that the products that they buy for their children will be safe, but our latest investigation has uncovered harmful products being sold even by big retailers. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Again, we&#8217;re calling on manufacturers to stop making unsafe products, and for the government and retailers to step up and do a much better job of ensuring only safe products get into people&#8217;s homes and into the hands of children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46543774\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Which? 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