ROTTERDAM customs has been rejecting as dangerous 20 per cent of imported toys from Asia, which account for 90 per cent of all toys sold in Europe, with the vast majority coming from China.

Dutch customs have focused on toys for infants, seizing on plastic rings with beads and other small parts, which could be swallowed, and well as potentially flammable items, reports London's Containerisation International. They have issued 350 dangerous toy alerts mostly against Chinese-toys, sometimes stopping full container loads.

Suspect toys are taken to a state laboratory. If they fail quality control tests, the European Commission's product safety office, RAPEX, then orders member states to remove them from retail shelves and have them destroyed.