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Standardized labeling requirements for certain kids
toys and games gets House nod
The House of Representatives has approved on third and final
reading a bill
providing protection to children against potential hazards to
their health and safety by
setting standardized labeling requirements for certain toys and
games of children.
House Bill 6529, a consolidation of House Bills 1221 and 1727,
authored
respectively by Reps. Diosdado M. Arroyo (2nd District,
Camarines Sur), Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo (2nd District, Pampanga), Juan Miguel Macapagal
Arroyo (Party-list,
Ang Galing Pinoy), Augusto Boboy Syjuco (2nd District, Iloilo),
Salvador Cabaluna III
(Party-list, 1-CARE) and Rufus Rodriguez (2nd District, Cagayan
de Oro City), his brotherMaximo Rodriguez (Party-list, Abante
Mindanao) and Lucy Marie Torres-Gomez (4th
District, Leyte), prescribes the printing of cautionary
statements and requires the inclusion
of graphics for the labeling of certain toys or games.
Arroyo said the State recognizes that children, by reason of
their physical and
mental immaturity, need special safeguards and care.
It acknowledges its obligation to secure the right of children
to proper care and
special protection from all forms of neglect and other
conditions prejudicial to theirdevelopment. The State shall ensure
the protection of children against potential hazards to
their health and safety by requiring special labeling of toys
and games and shall provide a
means of redress for violation of said rights, Arroyo said.
The measure requires that safety labeling of toy or game be
applied to food items
which contain or whose packaging includes a toy or descriptive
material of a game.
It mandates the Department of Health (DOH) to publish every six
months the list of
all misbranded or banned hazardous substances the sale, offer
for sale and distribution ofwhich shall not be allowed subject to
the requirements of this Act.
Under the measure to be known as the Toy and Game Safety
Labeling Act of
2011, packaging of any descriptive material, and in case of bulk
sales, bins, containers
for retail display or vending machines from which the unpacked
toy or game is dispensed,
shall bear the cautionary statements with corresponding graphics
intended for the use of
children below 14 years old includes a small part and is
manufactured for sale, offered for
sale or distributed in commerce in the Philippines.
The bill authorizes the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)
and the DOH to
include in their respective annual budgets the amount necessary
for the effective
implementation of this Act.
NR # 2901
OCT. 23, 2012
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Penalties provided range from P10,000 to P50,000 and
imprisonment of two years
or both.
Co-authors of the measure are Reps. Albert Raymond Garcia (2nd
District, Bataan),
Tomas Apacible (1st District, Batangas), Joel Roy Duavit (1st
District, Rizal), Ferjenel
Biron (4th District, Iloilo), Arthur Defensor, Jr. (3rd
District, Iloilo), Antonio Alvarez (1st
District, Palawan), Jerry Treas (Lone District, Iloilo City),
Teddy Casio (Party-list,
Bayan Muna), Linabelle Ruth Villarica (4th District, Bulacan),
Hermilando Mandanas
(2nd District, Batangas), Danilo Ramon Fernandez (1st District,
Laguna), Florencio Garay
(2nd District, Surigao del Sur), Marcelino Teodoro (1st
District, Marikina City), Anthony
G. Del Rosario (1st District, Davao del Norte), Jesus Sacdalan
(1st District, North
Cotabato), Tomas Osmea (2nd District, Cebu City), Josefina Joson
(1st District, Nueva
Ecija), Isidro Rodriguez, Jr. (2nd District, Rizal), Josephine
Veronique Lacson-Noel (Lone
District, Malabon City), Victor Yu (1st District, Zamboanga del
Sur), Jeffrey Ferrer (4th
District, Negros Occidental), Nur-Ana Sahidulla (2nd District,
Sulu), Antonio Lagdameo,Jr. (2nd District, Davao del Norte), Ma.
Theresa Bonoan-David (4th District, Manila),
Evelyn Mellana (2nd District, Agusan del Sur), Raden Sakaluran
(1st District, Sultan
Kudarat), Gabriel Luis Quisumbing (6th District, Cebu), Peter
Unabia, Sr. (1st District,
Misamis Oriental), Rodel Batocabe (Party-list, Ako Bicol), Neri
Colmenares (Party-list,
Bayan Muna), Teodorico Haresco, Jr. (Party-list, Ang Kasangga),
Mark Villar (Lone
District, Las Pias City), Pedro Pancho (2nd District, Bulacan),
Wilfrido Mark Enverga
(1st District, Quezon), Enrique Cojuangco (1st District,
Tarlac), Mary Mitzi Cajayon (2nd
District, Caloocan City), Sherwin Tugna (Party-list, CIBAC),
Arnel Ty (Party-list,
LPGMA), Ferdinand Martin Romualdez (1st District, Leyte), Elmer
Panotes (2nd District,Camarines Norte) and Catalina Bagasina
(Party-list, ALE). (30) lvc
