Implementation Of Safety Standards For Children'S Small Parts In China

　　 In August 1st, three items focused on Small garment parts The national standard for children's wear safety performance is officially implemented, namely "safety requirements for children's wear rope and belt", "Safety Specification for children's tops" and "mechanical safety improvement". Children's Wear Code for design and production implementation.

　　 The new safety standard series for children's wear is the main principle and basis for avoiding children's dangerous accidents. It specifies the safety specifications for children's tops, the safety requirements for using ropes and straps on children's clothing, and the implementation specifications for materials, designs and production of children's garments. The series standard The introduction of this will play a positive role in regulating and promoting children's wear market in China.

In recent years, Europe and the United States have established increasingly stringent safety standards for imported children's clothing, and China's children's clothing exports face greater challenges. Due to the lack of relevant standards for the safety performance of children's clothing, domestic children's clothing manufacturers only know how to produce according to the requirements of customers, and they lack sufficient identification ability to meet the standards and regulations of the design. This leads to the phenomenon that the "design" is consistent with "production" but "decoupling" with the regulations, which leads to the frequent recall of the recall. According to statistics, only the first three quarters of 2009, China's clothing products were notified by the European Union 153, an increase of 6.29 times compared to the same period last year. In the 1~4 months of this year, the United States recalled 27 items of textile and clothing products, an increase of 69% over the same period last year. Among them, the number of textiles recall in China was 22, accounting for 81.5% of the total, up 83.3% over the same period last year. During the same period, the EU recalled 182 items of textile and clothing products, an increase of 146% over the same period, of which 93 of China's textile and apparel products grew by 79% over the same period. Most of the recalled products are children's clothing. The reason for recall is still strangulation, swallowing, suffocation and injury. Among them, the spearhead mostly points to the unreasonable design of rope belt and small parts. The timely implementation of the three new national standards will play a good guiding role for children's clothing manufacturers.

The three new national standards have strict requirements for children's clothing rope and small parts, and some aspects are even stricter than those of Europe and the United States. This means that there is no "standard deviation" between China and Europe and the United States in the safety of children's ropes and belts. In view of this, the inspection and Quarantine Department reminded the relevant enterprises to seriously study three new national standards, and strictly control the quality and safety of children's clothing in strict accordance with the standards. At the same time, the following points should be done: first, improve the contract terms as far as possible, and the samples sent by foreign customers, if there are design defects or customer specified flour materials, do not meet three national standards. Two. When purchasing raw materials, children's clothing enterprises should pay attention to checking the qualified guarantee for suppliers to provide raw and auxiliary materials. The raw and auxiliary materials must be sampled and tested before entering the factory. After strict control and qualification, the children's clothing can be put into production to ensure that the materials used are in line with the safety requirements of the importing country and eliminate the hidden danger of quality before production. Three, carefully analyze the quality defects of the recall garment, and evaluate and check the risks of the whole production process.

EU reminds consumers to pay attention to children's clothing rope risk

Recently, in the process of market supervision, especially in checking children's clothing, the European Union found that children's clothing with strings and belts had certain risks. Children may be in danger of being dressed in the process of wearing, so they should remind consumers to be vigilant when buying such clothing.

It is reported that the EU's market watchdog inspected more than 16000 related clothing products from 11 member countries between 2008 and 2010, and found that 1/10 failed to meet EU safety standards, of which 70% of infants and children's clothing accounted for.

The European market supervisory authority often receives notifications for children's clothing strings and straps being entangled with bicycles, doors, doors or playground equipment, resulting in serious injuries or deaths. Traffic accidents statistics also show that such accidents can be classified into two categories according to age: 1, young children suffer asphyxia due to the rope tied to their necks. 2. A rope or band on a child's waist or lower part is stuck on a moving vehicle, such as bus doors, ski elevators, bicycles, etc., being dragged or injured by running vehicles or causing death.

To this end, the European Union requires manufacturers, distributors, importers and retailers to ensure that their children's clothing strings and belts meet EN14682:2007 European standards or provide relevant safety grade certificates. In this kind of related inspection, China's export products have been repeatedly informed and returned notice. In the whole of 2009, the United States, the European Union and Canada issued a total of 1404 non conforming notifications, involving 768 children, including toys, children's clothing, baby cots and so on. The main problems of the above products are the risk of strangulation or suffocation in children's clothing, which violates the requirements of the European Union and the United States.

The inspection and quarantine department reminds the relevant enterprises to do the following work: first, understand the requirements of the European and American safety requirements for the rope and small parts of children's clothing, strictly organize the production according to the requirements of the EN14682:2007 European standard, or provide relevant certificates to effectively improve the management level of children's clothing production; two, pay attention to evading risks when signing foreign trade contracts with the customers, do not accept defective designs, avoid claiming claims, etc.; three, enterprises should strengthen the safety project examination of product design and development, check the safety items of the first products, and the enterprises that have the conditions should build or jointly build laboratories according to their own product characteristics and export requirements, carry out the inspection of related safety items for clothing, enhance the self-examination and self-control ability of the enterprises, and effectively avoid risks.