Children'S Clothing Safety Once Again Become The Focus Of Standard Test Quality

AQSIQ recently released the results of the first quarter of this year's national product quality inspection, involving 27 categories of products, including children's clothing. The state has surveyed 131 children and infant clothing products produced by 130 enterprises in 8 provinces and cities such as Beijing and Guangdong. The results showed that there were 9 kinds of products pH value test results did not meet the relevant standards, there were 9 kinds of products fabric fiber content and express identification is not consistent, 1 kinds of products water color fastness, sweat stain fastness, saliva color fastness test results are inconsistent with the relevant standards. There are some famous brands in the unqualified products.

We have close contact with clothes every day. Those seemingly clean and beautiful clothes are sometimes "invisible killer" threatening human health, especially children's delicate skin. In fact, the national standard has a clear stipulation for the clothing safety grade. How should consumers choose when buying clothes?

　　 Children's wear safety The standard is class a.

According to the experts who are involved in the formulation and revision of many standards, the Secretary General of the national garment Standardization Technical Committee (TC219) and Mr. Xu Jian, director of the clothing Research Institute of Shanghai, according to the division of basic safety technical specifications of national textile products, clothing can be divided into three safety levels: A, B and C. The products for infants and young children should meet the technical requirements of class a products. The clothing directly contacting the skin should meet the technical requirements of B products, and clothing with direct contact with the skin should meet the technical requirements of C class products.

The safety of consumer goods, especially the safety of children's clothing, is becoming the focus of social attention. Children's coat Hat It is easy to be jammed with the neck strap, and the drawstring at the waist or lower part of the child's coat is easy to be hooked when getting on or off. The United States, Britain and other advanced countries track the accidents caused by children's clothing, and carry out accident statistics, analyze the inducements of children's clothing accidents, and continuously introduce various regulations and technical standards. Typical ASTM F 1816-2004 children's upper garment safety requirements, EN14682:2007 children's wear rope and belt safety requirements, BS7907:1997 improve the safety of children's clothing design and production implementation standards and other standards, for the world in children's clothing design and production practice provides an important basis. China has also promulgated relevant standards.

Unqualified products are dangerous.

According to experts, at present, according to the national mandatory technical standards, testing clothing. index It mainly includes pH value, formaldehyde content, azo dye, color fastness, fiber content, spanlocation and so on. Why does clothing contain dangerous ingredients?

It is understood that clothing pollution has two sources: first, in the process of planting raw materials, in order to control pests and diseases, use pesticides, fertilizers, herbicides, etc., if these toxic and harmful substances remain on clothing, they will cause skin allergies, respiratory diseases or other toxic reactions. The two is in the processing and manufacturing process, the use of oxidants, catalysts, flame retardants, whitening fluorescent agents and other chemical substances, these harmful substances are left on textiles, so that clothing once again contaminated. In the later stage of plastic finishing, the chemical substances containing formaldehyde will also be used to cause pollution to clothing. Clothing will inevitably use some chemicals in the processing and manufacturing process. If the chemicals are not treated well, the content of these chemicals on textiles exceeds a certain standard, if they contact the skin directly, they will do harm to people's health, and some of them will still have a long incubation period.

For example, the pH value is closely related to the processing technology and quality control of fabrics. PH value is not qualified mainly because the fabric production enterprises used a lot of acid and alkali substances in dyeing and finishing process, and did not take a reasonable neutralization process, resulting in the pH value of the product exceeded the standard. The normal pH value of human skin should be between 5.5 and 7, which is slightly acidic. It can protect human body from infection by bacteria. If the pH value of clothing is high or low, it will directly damage the balance mechanism of human skin and weaken the skin's ability to resist the invasion of germs, which may cause skin allergies, itching, redness and swelling, and even trigger irritant dermatitis and contact dermatitis. The unacceptable pH value is more harmful to children's health. There are 9 kinds of products pH value does not meet the relevant standards.

Formaldehyde content is also an indicator of human health. When clothing is produced, it will add formaldehyde to auxiliaries in order to achieve the functions of crease prevention, shrinkproof, flame retardancy, or to maintain the durability of printing and dyeing or to improve the handle. In particular, some garment manufacturers in order to save costs, in the production of ironing clothing, in order to make the fabric is not easy to wrinkle, the use of formaldehyde finishing agent. When the residual formaldehyde is not treated and made into garments, it will do harm to the human body. Formaldehyde will gradually release in the process of wearing, combined with human sweat or hydrolyze to produce free formaldehyde, which will produce strong stimulation on respiratory mucosa, eyes and skin, causing dizziness, airway inflammation and skin inflammation, which can cause hematological diseases and even cancer.

Experts choose clothing

These professional terms sound strange to consumers. If the formaldehyde and pH value of clothing components are indeed exceeded, it is very difficult for consumers to make a correct judgement without passing the testing apparatus. Yang Ping, deputy director of the China Textile Industry Association's testing center, introduced several methods that are convenient for us to operate.

First look at clothing labels. It is stipulated in the national basic safety technical specification for textile products that the labels, labels, labels or instructions of all garments and decorative textiles sold on the market should be clearly marked with product classification and labels should not be handwritten or altered. Since January this year, the relevant departments of the state have also issued new standards, requiring clothing manufacturers to mark formaldehyde content and pH value, which are the two chemical substances that may be most harmful to the human body in clothing components. Therefore, when buying clothes, consumers should pay special attention to the relevant labels on the labels, and understand which clothing meets the safety level of A, B and C.

Secondly, pay special attention to the special odors emitted from some textile products, such as mildew, gasoline and kerosene, fishy smell, especially those newly opened, indicating that there are excessive chemical residues on the textiles.

In addition, when people buy new clothes (especially T-shirts, shirts and other direct contact with the skin), no matter what the price is, they should be washed and dressed before drying in the sun. Assuming that the pH value exceeds the standard, cleaning will be very helpful. {page_break}

Enterprises should attach particular importance to children's clothing safety

Experts pointed out that the need to arouse concern of the relevant enterprises is that the FZ/T 81014-2008 "infant clothing" product standard has been formally implemented since October 1, 2008. This standard is the first product standard specially formulated for infants and young children (24 months old and below). The standards clearly stipulate that all provisions relating to clothing safety are mandatory. At that time, infant clothing with unqualified heavy metal residue and safety design will not be sold. Some quantitative indicators were specified in the standard, for example, formaldehyde content should not exceed 20mg/kg, and arsenic content should not exceed 0.2mg/kg. The standard also requires the addition of decomposable aromatic amine dyes to infant clothing, and no peculiar smell. The pH value is limited to 4.0~7.5. In addition, infant clothing must be marked on the logo "do not dry", because the dry cleaning agent may contain substances that stimulate the skin of infants. At the same time, the standard also carries on the standard to the infant clothing design.

In the safety of children's clothing, China's clothing enterprises have frequent disputes in international trade, causing great economic losses every year. For example, the recall of children's clothing originating in China from the United States and the European Union is mainly due to the failure to meet the safety requirements of the United States and the European Union on children's clothing standards. Therefore, children's clothing manufacturers should especially work hard in safety.