Russia’s consumer regulator, Rosskachestvo, has announced it will ban the sale of Huggy Waggi toys to children in Russia, after discovering they contain substances that can harm the health of young children.
According to Russian media, the authority has ordered the recall of low-quality Huggy Waggi toys from unapproved manufacturers.
This was stated by the authority’s press service website, which indicates that the large Russian markets have canceled the product sheets that contain Huggy Waggi toys.
He claimed that 89% of the “Huggy-Waghy” toys studied include high phenol content, as an increase in phenolic substance was found to be more than 4 times the allowable percentage in one of the toys purchased from the market, which can cause drowsiness, headache and nausea in the child.
The authority added in a statement that the vast majority of games are sold in the Russian market without any checks or controls and do not bear certificates of conformity.
The retailer, specializing in the sale of children’s toys, has joined the big markets, sharing the ban on selling low-quality products. Even the famous “Children’s World” shop has asked manufacturers to present the results of new tests on their products, after the manufacturer has undertaken to correct the errors.
Interestingly, Huggi Waggi are virtual monsters from the computer horror game that has become popular on “Tik Tok”, and industries in different countries have started producing children’s games in their image in huge quantities.