Will Pure Cotton Underwear Continue To Be "Pure"?

The prices of raw materials such as cotton, feather and raw wool have been rising. Many businesses are willing to cut corners in order to reduce costs.

A brand name underwear bought by a consumer at a shopping mall in Zhengzhou, which claimed to be 100% cotton, has faded after washing. After testing, more than 35% of the products are polyester.

Recently, the provincial textile quality supervision and Testing Center (hereinafter referred to as the test center) has received quite a number of such complaints.

Therefore, today's joint testing center undertook a dark look at underwear and other products. The results of yesterday's test were astonishing. Only 17 batches of samples purchased by random reporters were qualified, with a pass rate of only 29.4% of the 5 batches of samples.

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Several famous brands

In order to investigate the quality of the current clothing market, this newspaper and test center jointly launched the plan, starting from the hot selling products such as autumn clothes, autumn trousers and thermal underwear, and bought the merchandise randomly from the reporters to the market, and then commissioned the testing center to conduct the test.

In November 22nd, the reporter went to a store in Huayuan Road and bought it at the first floor supermarket.

Yesterday, the Testing Center released the final test results to reporters. Today, 7 sets of underwear bought by reporters today are out of order, and 6 of them are not qualified, and the reasons for the failure are all internal quality problems. Some are fiber content problems, some are serious.

At the same time, 6 of the 10 batches of samples purchased by other media reporters in a store in Huayuan Road were unqualified.

Finally, after statistics, the overall pass rate of the sampling inspection is only 29.4%, so the low pass rate even surprised the inspectors.

The unqualified samples include many famous brands such as Shanshan, warm up, La Sha, Bosideng and so on.

[main issues]

The difference between fiber content and standard value is several times.

Fiber content is an important part of the quality of clothing products. It is also one of the most concerned items when consumers buy clothes.

However, of the 17 batches of samples tested, 5 of the samples were not qualified for fiber content. They were Shanshan brand seamless thickening warm Terry underwear, Bosideng underwear, gentry men's fashionable jacquard underwear, small ant brand children's clothing, Dai Er brand fashion thermal underwear.

For example, the standard of spandex men's fashionable jacquard underwear spandex is 5.4%, but the measured value is only 1.5%, a full difference of 3.6 times.

The underwear with high price is also seriously fading.

Color fastness is an important index for clothes to fade. The dyestuffs and pigments and harmful substances on the fabric will be dissolved into rainwater and sweat during the wearing process, and then absorbed by the skin, which will be harmful to the human body, especially infants.

According to Wang Meng, deputy director of the clothing inspection section of the testing center, clothing with poor color fastness will produce free formaldehyde, aromatic amines and heavy metals. These harmful ingredients can cause allergic reactions to humans and cause allergic poisoning or cancer.

Some consumers believe that "one price per item", so other media reporters deliberately selected a set of high price comfort skin underwear at a large store in Huayuan Road. The test results showed that the product was not qualified, and the color was very serious.

Children's clothes smell of kerosene.

According to the state regulations, all clothing products are not allowed to have mildew, high boiling oil smell (such as gasoline, kerosene), fishy smell and aromatic hydrocarbon smell, but the small ant brand children's clothing tested has obvious kerosene smell.

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Inspectors said that the smell of clothing, often indicates that the processing environment of clothing is relatively bad.

The smell of kerosene from clothes is probably not cleaned by kerosene on factory machines.

Clothing manufacturers use expired inspection free signs

Logo is an important channel for consumers to understand product information. The state stipulates that clothing manufacturers must have 9 parts, including the name and address of the manufacturer, product name, product type and specification, raw material composition and content, washing method, product standard number, product safety category, product quality grade, product quality inspection qualification certificate and so on, but in this test, 9 batches of samples have made a mistake on the "logo".

The inspectors specifically pointed out that the brand of Ms. Dassault brand used to be overdue, which was overdue in December 2009.

[intimate reminder]

There is a clever way to choose clothes.

Wearing underwear with white cloth is not acceptable.

In winter, underwear is bought. Some consumers will buy underwear with darker colors, such as black, blue, red and so on. In fact, these colors are most prone to problems in color fastness.

The inspector reminded consumers that they could use white paper or white cloth to rub their clothes when they chose to wear deep colored clothes. If they were discolored, they must be unqualified products and could not be purchased.

Let's see if the washing signs show the horse's feet.

If you want to know whether a garment is from a large manufacturer, the simplest way is to see if its washing signs are qualified.

The general washing process is basically divided into 5 steps: Washing - chlorine bleaching - drying - ironing - professional maintenance.

The more careful clothes will be further expanded on the basis of these 5 steps, such as hand washing and drying, so there will be more programs on the logo, but the 5 basic steps will not change.

If the clothes you buy are confused in these 5 steps, the quality of the clothes should be called a question mark.

Don't be confused by "wood".

Model, bamboo charcoal fiber, what the meaning of these words is, I believe few people are clear about it.

The inspectors pointed to Hongxiang brand bamboo charcoal fiber + wool underwear and Lady Lance's wood DAL suit. "Bamboo charcoal fiber + wool can not be used as a product name, because there is no bamboo charcoal fiber. The scientific name should be called regenerated cellulose fiber.

"Modal" is actually "modal", also is regenerated cellulose fiber.

Problem clothing can be tested free of charge.

"In fact, one of our garments inspection is free. Consumers will send the clothes to us as soon as possible. We will give the inspection report free of charge, and with the inspection report, the rights protection will be much easier."

Test Center clothing inspection section chief Zhao Dongbing said.

After the test results were released, the reporter took the test report to the relevant businesses. Apart from being ignored, other businesses gave proper treatment, and a store in Huayuan Road also gave 1+1 compensation.