Standard For Infant Clothing

Recommended standard of textile industry drafted by seven units such as Shanghai Clothing Research Institute.

This standard is specially formulated for infants and young children's clothing products. It is suitable for children's clothing products that are mainly used in textile and woven fabrics for 24 months or less.

Since the implementation of the standards, it has played a positive role in guiding the production enterprises to strengthen the technical quality management, ensure the products meet the design requirements, achieve the quality standard of the process and the related safety and health performance requirements.

At the same time, it also provides a clear basis for product quality inspection for inspection agencies at all levels, and helps consumers understand and understand the importance of safety and health performance testing items for clothing products.

It can be said that setting relevant safety and health performance testing items is the highlight of this standard.

With the introduction of the concept of "eco textiles and clothing" and the popularization and application of Oeko-TexStandard100 standard in twenty-first Century, the safety and health problems of textiles and clothing have attracted more and more attention.

"Wear out safety" and "wear out health" have become an important concept of clothing consumption worldwide.

"Green products", which do not contain toxic and harmful substances and meet the requirements of environmental protection, have become more and more popular for consumers.

It is commendable that the standards of infant clothing should be included in the safety and health performance testing items, and some of the physical and chemical performance indicators should be enforced as judged whether the products are qualified or not.

Obviously, it has caught up with the development level of judging the quality of textile and apparel products in the advanced countries and regions.

Infants and young children are a special group.

Their body organs (including skin) are still in the growth stage, and their functions are not perfect, delicate, and their self-protection consciousness and ability have not been formed. They are vulnerable to various injuries in daily life, so they have become the objects of concern and protection.

Clothing is a relatively large daily necessities associated with the human body, and is relatively close to infants and young children. Therefore, the safety and health performance of infant clothing should be given enough attention to prevent the use of objects from being harmful and harmful.

Infant clothing

Products must not be dry cleaned.

Because some commonly used dry cleaning agents are mostly volatile chemicals, they will cause bad stimulation to infants with poor tolerance and affect their growth and development. Therefore, the standard should not adopt this method to clean products, and clearly require the product to label "dry cleaning" drawings or text descriptions, which prompt consumers to pay attention.

Surface finish of buttons, zippers and metal accessories

In order to prevent damage to infants and young children when clothing is worn, the standard requires that all buttons, decorative buttons, zippers and metal accessories on the product have no burrs, no sharp edges and other defects.

Embroidered or hand made sewn ornaments do not allow flashing and grainy beads or sharp edges and sharp materials.

No metal needle should be left in the finished product.

Clothing products, especially heavy products, will inevitably break down in the process of mass production sewing.

If the broken needle is stuck in the product, it will cause harm to the user if it is not cleared in time, so the standard raises this requirement.

In general, when a finished product is tested, the problem can be ruled out by using a special metal detector.

{page_break}

Safety of style design

The standard stipulates: the neckline and hat side of infant clothing products are not allowed to use rope bands; the length of all exposed bands can not exceed 14cm; the size of the perimeter is not less than 52cm when the collar is unfolded, all of which are aimed at avoiding the injury of infants and young children due to the occurrence of hooks, dragging and dragging in the use of products.

Foreign children have been reported to have been tug on the door card for a traffic accident.

The firmness of attachments

The standard requires that the zipper pull head must be undetachable, preventing infants from getting into the mouth and swallowing the trachea, causing suffocation; making the stipulation that the sewing force must be greater than or equal to 70 Newtons; making the "non falling off" Regulations for the undismantled accessories such as buttons, and requiring that the printing parts should not contain easily fallen powders and granules.

color fastness

The standard sets out the requirements for testing products such as dry rubbing fastness, color fastness to water, color fastness to perspiration, and fastness to saliva.

This is because color fastness is mainly used to assess the fastness of dyes to fibers and fabrics.

Textile dyes and fixing agents are mostly chemical substances, especially when fabrics are wetted and washed by water, light, rubbing, sweat and saliva.

In the process of wearing clothes, if dyes and fixative fail to reach the standard, a large number of them will fall off. If they are pferred to the skin, they will damage the human body or pollute the light colored clothes, which will affect the consumers' health and beauty.

Especially saliva color fastness is particularly important for infants and young children's clothing products, because 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 directly swallow the staining residues and get hurt.

Extractable heavy metal content

Heavy metals refer to heavy metals, including copper, lead, cobalt, chromium, cadmium, nickel, antimony, arsenic and mercury.

These metals have not yet been found to have any beneficial effects on the human body. Conversely, if these heavy metals are absorbed too much by the human body, they will cause harm to the human body.

Heavy metals can accumulate in living organisms. The longer the time is, the greater harm will be done to the human body.

Taking lead as an example, the harm of lead is mainly harmful to human nervous system, hematopoietic system and kidney.

Also, it should be pointed out that Mercury is harmful to the function of human brain cells.

The main cause of heavy metal composition in textiles and clothing is the absorption and accumulation of natural fiber plants from air, water and soil inlay during the growth process, as well as the absorption and residue of fabrics in some printing and dyeing processes and finishing processes, and some clothing accessories, such as zippers and buttons, also contain heavy metals released.

Because of the close contact, extractable heavy metals in fabrics and clothing are easily absorbed by human body, especially infants and young children.

The accumulation of heavy metals into the body will cause irreversible damage to the bones, liver, kidneys, heart and brain, and pose a great threat to human health.

Therefore, the standard specifies the amount of heavy metals extracted from mercury, cadmium, lead, arsenic and copper to ensure the safety of users.