Guangdong Children's Clothing Sampling Rate Low, Low Quality Safety Worry

Recently, the Beijing Consumer Council released a survey report on the quality of domestic and international famous brand casual pants, including ZARA, G2000, Guan Qi and G-STAR. The results showed that 40% of them were unqualified, which involved formaldehyde, pH value and even carcinogenic dyes.

This news makes Mr. Zhang, a Guangzhou citizen who is preparing to choose summer clothes for his 3 year old daughter, began to worry: there are such problems in designer clothes. What's more, the children's clothes with brand difference? Mr. Zhang's worries are quite representative in the group of young parents. A denunciation of the quality of children's clothing has spread on the Internet.

Reporter survey found that, as the first major production of children's clothing, Guangdong children's clothing sampling pass rate for many years has been in the low position, children's clothing quality and safety are worrying, all kinds of health hazards are passing through. Children's clothing "Penetrate the infantile young skin" poisonous hand "is extending to the child.

　 Over the years, quality inspection has been lingering at low pass rate.

Guangdong produces more than 300 million children's garments annually, accounting for more than 30% of the total output of the country. Children's wear formaldehyde The pH value of toxic dyes exceeded the standard and so on.

According to Guangdong provincial quality supervision and industry and Commerce Department announced the results of child clothing sampling statistics: the quality of children's clothing in our province has been hovering at low qualification rate for 5 years, the worst is only 30% qualified, at the best time, there are nearly 40% unqualified, 5 years average pass rate of only about 60%, and even has repeatedly checked out excessive toxic aromatic amine and other carcinogens.

In June last year, the Guangzhou Municipal Council and the Guangzhou industrial and commercial bureau announced the latest sampling results of children's products, of which the quality of children's clothing was the most worrying, and the quality compliance rate was only 66.7%.

Recently, along with Designer clothes The problem of excessive printing and dyeing was exposed, and the quality and safety of children's clothing were discussed again on the Internet.

"Attention should be paid to the safety of children's clothing, the problem of formaldehyde exceeding standard", "pure cotton is not equal to safety, bright colors may have methanol" and so on.

Having seen these discussions, Mr. Zhang of Guangzhou has temporarily stranded his daughter's plan to buy new clothes. "I used to buy new clothes for my daughter, but now I think the secondhand clothes worn by relatives and friends are safer."

Market visits children's wear logo "non direct contact with skin"

Recently, the Nanfang Daily reporter visited many children's clothing shops in Guangzhou, such as hang Po Plaza, Dali and Zhongshan eight roads, and found that the children's wear labels on the market were quite chaotic. It is difficult for consumers to judge whether formaldehyde and other substances exceed the standard from the appearance and packaging. Some miscellaneous manufacturers' products do not even have labels, and they are suspected of "three no" products.

The national basic safety technical specification for textile products stipulates that in addition to the word "baby products", infant clothing should be labeled with formaldehyde if it is used in production. The reporter looked at dozens of children's clothes at several children's wear shops in Heng Bao square. There was not a specific content of formaldehyde, only a general description of "formaldehyde content: in line with national standards".

According to a press survey, many children wearing short sleeved children's clothing on the market have identified safety categories of "non direct contact with the skin", rather than according to the "baby products" standard. About half of the products do not contain any categories of safety technology requirements.

The reporter asked the salesman that most of them did not know about it and only said, "if you worry about it, go back and wear it several times." {page_break}

　　 Inquiring about "poisonous children's clothing"

The crux of the problem 1: Jerry waste toxin residue

Another problem of problem clothing in recent years is that the content of raw materials is not consistent with the measured value. In children's clothing, this problem appears more. Last year, the Shenzhen Consumer Council found 50 samples of children in Shenzhen market (including infants and young children) in a comparative test. There were 11 sample samples, including many well-known brands.

Liao Jierong, an apparel industry analyst, pointed out that the cost of raw materials such as cotton and wool rose greatly. Some manufacturers used fake and shoddy fabrics in order to save costs, which could easily lead to excessive or residual pollutants.

Huang, the chairman of a Hong Kong apparel company in Guangzhou, said that in the production process of low-grade fabrics, a large number of dyeing auxiliaries and resin finishing agents containing formaldehyde are often added, so as to make the clothes wrinkle free, not shrink and fade. Clothing enterprises in the processing process, did not remove clean, will lead to formaldehyde exceeding the standard.

Mr. Huang said that some famous brand clothes are actually looking for OEM for other companies. If they are not strict with the OEM companies, it is easy to appear that the brand name clothing exceeds the standard of formaldehyde.

　 The crux of the problem 2: quality inspection report, inspection and multiple use

"Frequent clothing quality problems are closely related to the high cost of testing and the evasion of psychology by enterprises. For example, azo dye detection process, the cost of a color detection will need four hundred or five hundred yuan, and children's clothing often contains a variety of colors, if each batch of products have to pass the test, the cost is quite high. Mr. Cheng, a red boy (China) Limited, said that some manufacturers are not strict with the quality of fabric and lack of testing.

Zhang Yulian, an engineer of the National Textiles and clothing products quality supervision and Inspection Center Technology Department, said that most of the entrusted inspection of the center was big brand enterprises, and many small and medium enterprises rarely detected it. It has been revealed that some clothing enterprises spend millions of yuan to tens of millions of yuan annually in quality inspection.

Huang, a board chairman of a Hong Kong clothing company in Guangzhou, revealed that many enterprises were required to inspect the customers before they were submitted for inspection, or to deal with the inspection reports by other batches. The sampling inspection density of the quality inspection departments was too low, which was often a large-scale assault inspection before the 61 Festival.

Huang's statement has been corroborated by the experts of the Consumer Council: "the clothing industry has many styles and fast changes, and the quality inspection reports of the same model and batch are generally very few. Most manufacturers are unable to provide the statutory quality inspection report of the controversial garment, instead of using the similar quality inspection report of clothing."

According to the statistics of the Guangzhou Municipal Council, in 2010, 4611 cases of clothing, shoes and hat products (complaints) were filed in Guangzhou, representing an increase of 217.13% over the same period last year. {page_break}

Crux 3: Children's clothing production threshold is very low.

"Mainly because the industry has a low entry threshold, and several people and several sewing machines have opened factories." Yesterday, Zhang Yulian engineer told reporters that the clothing industry is highly professional, azo dyes as an example, there are thousands of azo dyes, of which more than 200 kinds of substances will decompose harmful substances to the human body, which are forbidden to decompose aromatic amine dyes. However, many small and medium-sized enterprises do not have professional or professional knowledge in this field, or do not test when purchasing. In the production process, carcinogenic banned dyes are used to decompose aromatic amines.

Quality supervision departments concerned pointed out that children's clothing quality is not going to go, one of the main reasons is that children's clothing has not been included in the production license catalogue, and the threshold for children's wear production enterprises is extremely low. Compared with other products such as bean products, river meal and so on, which are included in the production license catalogue, enterprises must first invest in 2.3 million yuan to upgrade production lines, improve production environment, and have access to raw materials and production laboratories. "Penalties for violators are not strict enough either to pay a fine or to shut down businesses. Many cottage factories change their rents and change their names."

　 Experts remind: Children's clothing is best to choose light color.

Yang Jian, Professor of Department of dermatology at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College, said that because children's clothing was made of pure cotton cloth and cotton cloth was not easy to set, in order to make the clothes look beautiful, formaldehyde must be used as the setting agents, and formaldehyde should be the cheapest clothing setting agent. In addition, the government regulators pay more attention to the protection of children, and the sampling inspection for children's clothing may be more frequent, so children's clothing is detected more frequently.

Children's skin is very delicate, formaldehyde, pH value is more than standard, more likely to cause skin allergy. Yang Jian said that the formaldehyde and pH value of clothing are harmful to human body. Short term contact can cause contact dermatitis. The main symptoms are skin redness, rash, itching or pricking sensation. Severe will cause irritation of eyes and respiratory tract. Repeated contact will cause local skin pigmentation. In addition, formaldehyde has potential teratogenic and tumorigenic effects.

Chen Jinping, director of Department of Dermatology, children's Hospital suggests that in order to prevent skin allergies, children should buy white or light colored clothes. Since the residual detergents will also be sensitized, the newly purchased clothing, especially the personal clothing, should be washed with clean water and then worn. If allergic symptoms are detected, consult the dermatology specialist and receive treatment immediately.

　　 Tips

According to the relevant regulations of China, 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 - 7.5; B class is a product with direct contact with skin, formaldehyde content is not higher than 75mg/kg, pH value is 4 - 7.5; C is non direct contact with skin products, pH value is 4 - 9, formaldehyde content is not higher than 300mg/kg, can not have peculiar smell.