New Rules For Infants And Young Children Are Unclear. Buyers Are More Confused.

The GB18401 - 2010 national basic safety technical specification for textile products issued by the AQSIQ and the National Standardization Management Committee has been implemented since August 1st this year.

Compared to the old national standard, the biggest difference of the new national standard is that it expands the age range of infant textile products coverage: infants and young children under 3 years of age must conform to class a standards, that is to say, when buying clothes for children under 3 years old, clothing must be labelled, and labels on children must be marked with "baby products, class A, GB18401 2010". If they fail to meet the standards, they will be banned.

However, recently, reporters visited a number of supermarkets and children's clothing stores in the city and found a large number of them.

Labels are still chaotic, and infant clothing is rarely seen in the market.

In a large shopping mall in downtown area.

In the area, a reporter asked to buy clothes for a two-year-old child, and a salesperson recommended several items to reporters.

By checking the labels, the reporters found that most of these costumes were "GB18401 - 2003 (B)" standard, and some of them were written on the label "GB18401 - 2010 (B class)". Even some baby clothes were in English or Korean, and there was no information about what the new GB required to display.

The reporter only saw on one of the clothes labels that the execution standard was displayed as "GB18401-2010 (a)".

But on the same clothes, the reporter found that the above executive standard became "GB18401-2010 (B class)".

Ask the salesperson, the salesperson says she is not clear, did not pay attention.

Later, the reporter asked several salesmen whether they knew the new national standard of children's wear.

The salesmen questioned were all at a loss, indicating that they did not understand this: "we are only responsible for sales, and others do not know."

In some small children's clothing stores in the city, the reporters saw that there were still many infant clothes that were marked with B and C standards. Some clothes in children's clothing stores did not even have a tag.

Referring to the new national standard, many shop assistants said they had never heard of it, and they did not know what the new national standard was.

A young mother who was picking clothes for her baby said that she usually only looked at the fabric composition of clothing, and she did not know whether clothes conform to class A or class B standards.

Dozens of mothers interviewed later said that they should pay more attention to buying clothes.

Do not damage the child's skin, do not know that "clothes and class a B standards."

For the implementation of the new national standard for children's wear, the staff of Weinan Fiber Inspection Institute said that according to the new national standard, clothing was divided into three grades: A, B and C according to formaldehyde content, pH value, odor and other indicators, and it was suitable for infants and young children after testing. It accorded with the standard value of class B, and the products that accorded with the standard values of category C were not suitable for children.

According to the standards, clothing for infants under 3 years of age are subject to class a standards.