New Requirements Of Green Environmental Protection For Infant Clothing Deserve Attention

The national green environmental protection clothing standard "infant clothing standard" will be implemented in October 1st this year. The infant clothing standard will be the first national standard for infants and young children's clothing safety in China (24 months or less).

Taking into account the infant skin is more delicate than adults, the national standard limits the pH value between 4 and 7.5, while the pH value of adult textiles is between 4 and 9.

In addition, the standard also requires the label of infant clothing must be marked "not dry cleaned", because dry cleaners may contain substances that stimulate the skin of infants and young children.

In the daily inspection and supervision, the inspection and quarantine institutions found that the monitoring of banned azo dyes and formaldehyde in export textiles was generally taken seriously, but the importance of pH value was not enough.

According to the national basic safety technical specification for textiles, infant products belong to class a products, and the color fastness, formaldehyde, pH value and dyestuff demand are higher than those of "direct contact with skin".

The pH value is an index of safety. The pH value of textiles is beneficial to prevent bacteria from intruding between slightly acidic and neutral. Too high pH values can destroy the acidic environment of human skin, resulting in the destruction of natural barriers on the skin's surface, stimulating the skin, causing bacteria, causing diseases, delicate skin and rapid blood circulation. Improper pH value is more likely to cause skin inflammation and damage the sweat gland system and nervous system.

There are many reasons for the unqualified pH value of textile products. All kinds of agents in textile printing and dyeing are not adequately washed, and all kinds of finishing agents added in the process of washing are not standardized. If the fabric is not fully washed after printing and dyeing, it will be dried out or not take certain measures to neutralize the fabric, which will cause the pH value of the fabric to exceed the standard.

Clothing export enterprises should take measures to effectively improve the qualified rate of export clothing: strengthen the training of relevant personnel, promote their correct understanding of standards and correct use of standards, avoid human factors causing color fastness and unqualified pH value; raise awareness of foreign technical trade measures; at the same time, introduce new technologies, new processes, and new methods; at the same time, use green dye and advanced finishing technology as far as possible; equip with necessary testing equipment and equipment, and strengthen training of inspectors; when signing contracts for purchase and sale, foreign trade units shall require suppliers to produce test reports for raw and auxiliary materials, and also periodically or periodically purchase samples of raw and auxiliary materials to be sent to authoritative departments for testing and verification, so as to ensure that infant clothing meets the new requirements of green environmental protection. Remind here