What Is Formamide? What Is the Harm?

Children stay and play at home for the longest time, and baby mats are where they spend most of their time. Therefore, choosing a safe and comfortable baby mat is one of the most important items on parents’ shopping lists. Even an ordinary baby crawling mat has a direct impact on the healthy growth of children, so a right baby mat can not only be a toy to assist children in sports but also help to protect the children from being knocked against; while a wrong one will cause trouble and even seriously affect the health of children.

As such a cute little baby crawl and lick on the baby mat every day, parents must be worried about what kind of harmful substance the so-called formamide is.

Now let's learn something about the harm of formamide. First, formamide has moderate irritation to the eyes, skin, and mucous membranes. Inhaling large amounts of formamide vapor may require medical care, and it is also a teratogenic factor. It has been proven that formamide is thrombotic in animals, besides, inhaling and orally ingesting formamide as well as contacting it with the skin for a long time are considered dangerous.

More crucially, its reproductive and developmental toxicity can be devastating for infants and young children. When mice continuously inhale the formamide with a concentration of 300ppm (0.03%) or above, they will experience significant reproductive problems and weight loss after 7 to 14 weeks. Combined with the continuous accumulation characteristic of formamide, the damage can not be overlooked if the children crawl on the toxic baby mat for a long time.

Because of this, formamide was added to the seventh batch of SVHC (Substance of Very High Concern) published in the REACH Bill of the European Union in 2012. In other words, formamide will be a highly concerned substance in similar products sold on the European market.

There is nothing wrong with the quality of the baby mats produced by YIWU JIETAI RUG CO., LTD since the external sales. Our products pass the quality inspection standard and are the first choice for parents to rest assured purchase.