Concern: Problem Clothing VS New National Standard

Recently, the Guangdong Provincial Bureau of industry and Commerce informed the quality monitoring of some clothing sales in the 1 quarter of 2010, exposing a number of substandard products, and detecting the decomposition of aromatic amine dyes on individual products, causing many consumers' concerns. Ms. Cheng is one of them. She asked whether there were standards in the industry. In fact, in January 1st this year, the 10 national standards of suits, coats, trousers and neckties were formally implemented. The new national standard for the first time put forward specific requirements for pH, decomposable carcinogenic aromatic amine dyes and formaldehyde content. Reporters interviewed found that consumers knew little about the national standard, and many enterprises ignored it because the GB was not mandatory.

Relevant regulations of the new national standard of national standard connecting clothing

According to the requirements of the national standard "national textile products basic safety technical specifications", clothing is divided into three categories: A, B and C. Class A is infant products, formaldehyde content is not higher than 20mg/kg, pH value is 4.0~7.5; B class is a product with direct contact with skin, formaldehyde content is not higher than 75mg/kg, pH value is 4.0~7.5; C is non direct contact with skin products, pH value is 4.0~9.0, formaldehyde content is not higher than 300mg/kg, can not have peculiar smell.

Consumers are not concerned about formaldehyde content and pH value of clothing.

According to Ms. Cheng's report, the reporter visited the clothing store of Beijing road and Tianhe City. Most of the consumers surveyed expressed concern about whether the fabrics were pure cotton or chemical fiber, but little attention was paid to the pH value of the clothing, the decomposed carcinogenic aromatic amine dyes and the formaldehyde content. Several consumers of a clothing store in Beijing road said they did not know the national standard of clothing.

Miss Huang, who chooses clothes in YISHION stores, told reporters that she only looked at the color, style and price of the clothes. She only looked at the size and material of the signs, and never knew about the technical categories of formaldehyde content and pH value. As for the labels "B category", "safety class C class" and so on, they do not know what the specific representatives mean, and they seldom notice.

Reporters found in the interview, we all know that formaldehyde is harmful to the body, but it has never been linked to the daily clothing. One consumer said that knowing formaldehyde is harmful to human body is limited to the decoration of the house, and that the excessive formaldehyde in clothing will also affect human health.

Reporter survey also found that although the national standard has been issued for half a year, some clothing businesses have no knowledge of this. Whether it is high-end brand clothing or middle and low grade clothing, labels do not meet the requirements of the new standard. The monitoring of the above provincial industry and Commerce Bureau shows that the products produced by Guangdong Burton Fashion Co., Ltd. and Hangzhou Wahaha children's Garments Co., Ltd. are all tested for quality problems. According to the introduction, there are four kinds of textiles, which are easy to contain formaldehyde: one is ironing clothes; the other is fashionable jeans, especially those with different colors; three is children's clothing; four is the clothes stored in wood-based panel furniture, three.

The industry claims that the new GB is only recommended for implementation.

Careful people are not hard to find that the "problem" of problem clothing is basically "old three": formaldehyde content, pH value exceeding standard, color fastness not enough and containing carcinogenic aromatic amine. These three constraints are reflected in the new standard. So why has the new national standard been issued for half a year and "problem clothing" is still banned? For this reason, Andy, the design director of a famous clothing brand in Hongkong

Lau analysis shows that the new national standard of clothing is good. It is good for protecting the rights and interests of consumers, and also conducive to the standardized operation of foreign trade. Will vigorously promote textile and clothing to more stringent standardization of production. However, all provisions are not mandatory and are still recommended for implementation. This undoubtedly gives the garment enterprises the opportunity to exploit loopholes. In addition, although the national standard has put forward specific requirements for pH and formaldehyde content, it has not been written into the label standard of clothing. For most enterprises, these Regulations are virtually useless and can be ignored.

According to industry sources, if the company executes according to the new national standard, it will increase the cost of production inspection by at least 10%, and the clothing enterprises exported to Europe and the United States generally do the testing because the requirements of the other party are quite strict, while the enterprises selling in the domestic market often want to muddle through. Many enterprises are driven by interests. When the new national standard is being implemented, they can avoid the new national standard by taking away the fluke mentality of "hiding and hiding", so it is very difficult for the new national standard to fully standardize the enterprises in a short time.

But industry experts stressed that clothing pH and formaldehyde content are not up to standard is the human body's "invisible killer": normal skin surface pH value is acidic, about 4.5 to 6.5, and has a very good protective effect. If the clothing's pH value is too high, it will stimulate the skin and cause skin diseases. Formaldehyde is more harmful. Formaldehyde is mainly used for antisepsis. Wearing such clothing will reduce human resistance and damage epidermal cells. If you wear clothes with high concentration of formaldehyde for a long time, you will invade the viscera of the body and cause cancer. Such clothing standards closely related to human health should be specifically marked by businesses.

5 tips to teach you to stay away from "problem clothes".

1. identification label: the label is the identity card of the product. The types of textile products, quality grade, technical requirements, manufacturers and other information, consumers can be seen in product labels, instructions, packaging or tag, and textile products with no safety labels are substandard products.

2. look at color: for infants and young children to buy clothes to choose small patterns of clothing, the best choice of light colored clothing. Dark colored clothes usually have more dyeing links, which are easy to cause the dye to fall into the skin through the friction of the children. Especially some infants like to chew clothes, and dye and chemical additives will enter the child's body to damage the body. Too much colourful clothes often add too much dyestuffs, and strong colors in the sunlight will damage the children's eyes and affect their eyesight.

3. smell: when buying clothes, smell and smell. If there is a strong pungent smell on the clothes and feel a slight burning sensation in the eyes, nose and throat, most of the clothes can not be purchased with formaldehyde content exceeding the standard.

4. texture: when choosing underwear, choose soft, breathable and hygroscopic cotton fabrics. When buying, you might as well burn the thread. The thread of pure cotton clothes has the smell of burning paper when burning, the ash is gray, and it is gone with one hand; and the thread of chemical fiber clothing will shrink into a black ball when it burns.

5. careful wear ironing: formaldehyde sensitive, do not wear non iron clothes. Just buy the ironing clothes, do not hang them in the wardrobe immediately, so as not to pollute other clothes. If you do not wear, you should hang the ironing clothes in the ventilating place to release formaldehyde.