The New National Standard Of Clothing Quality And Safety Will Be Implemented In August.

The near future, clothing Quality and safety problems are concentrated. Whether it is underwear or coat, domestic or imported, adults or children's clothes, the detection of formaldehyde, pH value, can decompose carcinogenic aromatic amine dyes and other toxic and harmful substances, harm the health of the human body. Green and healthy clothes are still numbered. Fortunately, this issue has been highly valued. The new national standard of clothing will be enforced in August, and toxic and harmful substances will be strictly controlled.

Recent clothing checks found serious problems

The quality supervision and spot check results of pajamas underwear products released by Guangzhou Quality Supervision Bureau showed that 12 batches of products were unqualified, with an unqualified rate of 24%. These include royal heart lactation underwear, Ji Fu Mei bra, 37 degree LOVE, autumn deer household clothes, etc. Another test report is also not optimistic. The quality inspection of Baby Garments released by the Guangzhou Quality Supervision Bureau in the first quarter of this year showed that the products of 1/6 were unqualified. The products of the problem were formaldehyde, pH value, decomposable carcinogenic aromatic amine dyes and other health hazards. 1 batches of products also contained banned carcinogenic aromatic amine dyes.

Clothing products safety quality problem Imported apparel is not the only thing that happens to domestic manufacturers. Last month, the Zhejiang provincial industry and Commerce Bureau released a quality inspection report on the sampling of imported garments sold on the three markets in Hangzhou, Ningbo and Wenzhou. The report shows that the sampling inspection imported 34 batches of Korean clothing, of which 17 were not qualified, the pass rate was only 50%, and some brands of clothing were even detected carcinogens, exceeding the national standard allowable range of nearly 30 times. According to the introduction, the products in Zhejiang's industry and Commerce Bureau are mostly well-known local brands in South Korea. Some of them are "famous", such as BEANPOLE, O '2nd, respectively, which are the brand names of the two well-known multinational companies of SamSung group and Korea SK group. The two brands of HAZZYS and MOGGPINK belong to the Korean LG apparel group, which is a subsidiary of Korea LG group.

Some enterprises bleach and dye clothes with fluorescent agents.

In the recent inspection report issued by the regulatory authorities, the author found that most of the problem clothes contain fiber content, formaldehyde, pH value and decomposability. carcinogenic Aromatic amine dyes and other issues.

For example, in a sample of Korean clothing imports released by Zhejiang industrial and commercial bureau, there was a knitted coat covered by the total distribution of the name Mayuzumi Ma Shi (Zhengzhou) Garments Co., Ltd., and the decomposable aromatic amine dye benzidine which was banned in China was detected, and its content was as high as 608 mg / kg, exceeding the standard of 30.4 times. It is reported that the dye is prohibited in the national textile and clothing can not be detected 4 kinds of dyes that can directly cause cancer to the human body.

stay Municipal Quality Supervision Bureau In the quality checks of children and infant clothing products released recently, 1 batches of products were found to contain decomposable carcinogenic aromatic amine dyes. In addition, there are 3 batches of products pH value is not qualified, pH value is a more important indicator of textile safety performance, pH value is too high or too low, will damage the skin surface pH balance, causing skin allergy or induced infection, so that the skin vulnerable to other pathogens. Zhang Yulian, an expert in Guangzhou textile products testing institute, pointed out that textile raw materials used acidic or alkaline chemicals in weaving, printing and dyeing and finishing processes, and the final finishing process should be carried out under alkaline conditions, and then cleaned and neutralized. If the washing is not in place, the alkali substance will remain and cause the pH value to be high. "If the pH value is too high, it will have adverse effects on the delicate skin and the skin of adults, such as scratching and scratching in summer, leaving a wound that is too high for pH." She suggested that consumers should first wash and wear clothes after buying them, especially for personal clothing and children's clothing, so that the pH value can be improved.

Formaldehyde is also a common phenomenon in the problem of clothing. In the past many regulatory checks, it was found that some of the batches of formaldehyde products exceeded the standard. Experts of Guangzhou fiber products testing institute point out that if the manufacturer uses the low cost formaldehyde finishing agent or injection agent in the fabric finishing process, the formaldehyde content will exceed the standard. "Excessive formaldehyde content in clothing stimulates children's respiratory and skin mucous membranes, causing respiratory injury and triggering various kinds of inflammation. Skin contact with formaldehyde can cause reactions such as allergies and rashes. The toxicity of formaldehyde exceeds the standard, which can cause asthma, tracheitis, chromosomal abnormality, and decrease of resistance.

Guangdong Province Baby products Dai Zhijian, the president of the association, also told the media that in recent years, he found that some employees had to bleach and dye their clothes with fluorescent brighteners in order to make their clothing lighter. "Unless experts, consumers are hard to tell with naked eyes." According to experts, from the medical point of view, fluorescent whitening agents are harmful to the human body.

The new national standard will carry out strong control of toxic and harmful substances in August.

The author was informed that in order to improve the quality and safety of domestic clothing, China will implement textile and apparel in August this year. new national standard 。 According to the introduction, all the technical contents of the regulation are mandatory, and its purpose is to control the main toxic and harmful substances in textiles, so as to ensure people's basic safety and health. Zhang Yulian pointed out that in the new national standard, under the condition of reduction, the aromatic amines which were not allowed to decompose in the dye increased from 23 to 24, and 4- amino azobenzene was added. The new national standard also clearly stipulates that the maximum limit value of carcinogenic aromatic amines is 20mg/kg, which has not been limited before. "The developed countries have already stipulated the maximum limit value of aromatic amine dyes in textiles through various decrees. In 1997, the maximum limit value of carcinogenic aromatic amines in France was 30" / "in the form of official communiques. In 2002, the European Union issued the directive that the maximum limit value for the decomposition of 22 aromatic amine dyes was 30. The implementation of this new national standard has also made China's standards and decrees further in line with international standards.

The above personages also stressed that the new national standard especially highlighted the protection of children's special consumer groups. For example, the range of infant clothing is extended from 24 months to 36 months, and all of these garments have to carry out class a standards. Class a standards are more stringent in terms of formaldehyde, pH value and color fastness, so as to protect infants' health. In addition, infants often unconsciously bite their clothes and other objects in their mouths. If the fabric's saliva color fastness is not up to standard, it will cause children to suffer from direct staining of staining residues, while consumers outside infants and young children will not have similar phenomena, so saliva color fastness is only tested for infants and young children's textile products.

Expert advice

Regulatory whole industry chain

In addition to improving the national standard to protect the quality of clothing, insiders believe that the whole industry chain should be strengthened. "Current regulatory sampling is mainly aimed at the finished products market." Guangdong clothing and apparel industry association president Zhang believes that the supervision of clothing quality should not be aimed at production enterprises only, but if there are good links in every aspect of the industrial chain, there will be high quality products. He further explained that the quality inspection department's textile inspection is mainly based on product clothing and so on, and did not check the fabric, but the actual situation is that the supplier deceived the buyer, and the upstream fabric of the textile is not qualified. And it is impossible for enterprises to inspect every batch of incoming goods, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises.