Children'S Clothes Are Sour?

The number of patients on the list is "sick number".

It is sour and alkaline. This term is usually used to describe less qualified foods.

But do you know that today's unqualified children's clothing also has such "chemical problems"?

Recently, AQSIQ has children and infants.

Faced with the above sampling results, many baby parents are worried and puzzled.

In this way, children can not choose beautiful clothes and superstitious brands, but also have to know "chemical knowledge". Too much acid is not enough. If the alkali is too big, they will also hurt themselves. How much is the pH value of fabric?

In this issue of "authoritative release", the reporter on children and infants

Sampling action scan

[spot checks] we sampled 105 children from 100 enterprises in 8 provinces and municipalities in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong.

And infant clothing products, including 26 kinds.

[spot check basis] "national textile product basic safety technical specification" GB18401-2003, "children's clothing, student clothes" FZ/T 81003-2003, "infant clothing".

FZ/T 81014-2008 and related product standard requirements.

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[spot check items] fiber composition and content of children and infant clothing products, formaldehyde content, pH value, banned decomposable aromatic amine dyes, sweat resistance, water resistance, and anti friction.

Brush, saliva, sewing strength (buttons, clothing, etc.) 9 items.

The passing rate of 26 kinds of infant clothing (category A) reached 88.5%, and 79 children's clothing (class B and C) had a qualified rate of 86.1%.

One of the diseases: alkalis and hyperacidity.

Test results: pH value exceeds the nominal terms: pH value is an indicator of the acid-base of goods, and is also one of the safety indexes of textiles.

Etiological analysis:

Yang Ping, deputy director of the China Textile Industry Association's testing center, said that in the production process of clothing, printing and dyeing production processes need to be added with various dyes, auxiliaries and other chemical agents, such as processing woolen fabrics, using acidic agents, and treating cotton garments with alkaline preparations.

After the clothing is made, the pH should be balanced within the acceptable range of the human body.

However, some manufacturers after the fabric printing and dyeing process, the water is not enough to dry out the factory, or did not take a certain measure of neutralization, so that the pH value deviated from the standard value, resulting in improper clothing acid-base.

In addition, inferior fabrics will also cause pH value to exceed the standard.

Harm:

Because the surface of the human body is weakly acidic (the pH value of healthy skin is between 5.0-5.6), the pH value of clothing is too high or too low, which may damage the pH of human skin and cause discomfort. Especially for sensitive skin, it is easy to cause allergic symptoms such as pruritus and dermatitis.

Children, infants and young children's skin, wearing clothes with pH value exceeding standard, will cause the natural barrier of the skin's surface to be damaged, and the skin of its neutral acidic will be stimulated, causing burning sensation, causing bacteria and causing diseases.

If the alkalinity is too large and strong irritation, children's skin derangement is easy to cause.

National standard:

In order to prevent the pH value from exceeding the standard, it endangering the human body. The national standard GB18401, the basic safety technical specification for national textile products, classified the clothing safety grade into three categories: A, B and C. Class A is for infants and children, B is for direct contact with skin, and C is for non direct contact with skin.

The pH values of class A and B products are allowed to range from 4 to 7.5, and the pH values of C products are allowed to range from 4 to 9, when people wear the most comfortable ones.

Awareness index:

Reporter visits:

Reporters in some children's clothing store to see that although the state has issued regulations, clothing labels should be marked pH value, but many children in the sale of children's clothing did not mark the pH value.

Some salesmen also said they had never heard that children's clothing should be marked with pH value, and they did not require manufacturers to provide test reports in this area when they purchased goods.

Most consumers are not fully aware of the harm caused by pH value exceeding standard. Usually buying clothes only care about style and color. The most concerned labels are price, material composition, washing method and so on.

Prescription:

New clothes are washed first.

Some parents buy their new clothes and wear them directly to their children.

Actually, this is wrong.

In order to reduce the harmful substances in clothing to a minimum, remind everyone to wash the newly bought children's clothing first, so that the pH value of the fabric can be neutralized and the harm caused by the acid or alkalinity of the clothes can be reduced.

It is worth noting that children's underwear should be washed separately from adults' clothing. Children's special laundry detergent or soap powder should be recommended.

Clothing without safety grade tips

When buying infant clothing, we must see whether the safety level is category a "infant products".

When buying other garments, you should see whether the products are marked with GB18401 class A, GB18401B class, or GB18401C class, or safety class A, safety class B, safety class C class, and wear and use according to safety grade tips.

The detailed pH value is rarely seen on the clothing labels on the market. Consumers should pay attention to salesmen and ask them to produce relevant test reports when buying children's clothing.

Disease two: flicker disease

The result of the test is that the fiber content of the fabric is not in conformity with the indication.

Noun explanation:

Fiber content is a symbol of the real attributes of goods, and also a major factor for consumers to consider the purchase of goods. The standard stipulates that fiber content must be marked, and the actual fiber content must be consistent with the marked fiber content.

Fiber content is not qualified. It means that the fiber content in the product logo is inconsistent with the actual, or even the composition is consistent, but the proportion of various fiber components is inconsistent with the actual or exceed the standard tolerance range.

Fiber content is actually an express warranty for products. If the fiber content is not qualified, it will inevitably turn the guarantee into empty words, which is a deception to consumers.

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Etiological analysis:

The reason for such problems is that some enterprises do not check the raw materials into factories and factories, and do not establish a sound raw material inspection system. They do not check the content of raw materials to control the quality. The enterprises themselves do not have the means of testing, and do not want to go to the inspection institutions for testing. When making the product marks, they are completely trusted with the information provided by the raw materials suppliers, and are tagged without testing.

Two, because of the rising cost of raw materials such as cotton and wool, enterprises are overlooking for profits and purchasing cheap fabrics to reduce costs.

More businessmen in order to facilitate sales, knowing that they are general or low-grade fibers, deliberately labeled high-grade fibers, shoddy, deceiving consumers.

Three is the confusion of management, the label is wrong, hanging tag wrong.

Harm:

Consumers can choose the type of products according to the fiber content on the labels. Children with unqualified fiber can easily mislead consumers.

National standard:

Class a baby products, water resistance, sweat stain color fastness requirements of more than 3~4 grade, dry friction, saliva color fastness requirements of more than 4 grade; class B and C products water resistance, sweat stains, dry friction, color fastness requirements of more than 3 level.

Awareness index:

Reporter visits:

Reporters in some children's clothing wholesale market to see, some price more than ten yuan of a set of baby underwear tag is marked by 100% cotton, but with a touch of slippery, obviously have other ingredients such as spandex, but are not marked.

Prescription:

When choosing infant clothing, it is better to see clearly the fiber components marked on the tag, and judge whether the composition of the garment is consistent with the label according to the hand feeling and experience.

Children's skin is young and low resistance. Therefore, children's clothing fabric should choose pure cotton or regenerated cellulose fiber, such as viscose fiber, modal and Tencel. This kind of fabric is not only soft and comfortable, but also strong in water absorption and permeability, and it is not easy to stimulate children's skin.

Colored cotton is also a good choice, soft and breathable, but it should be remembered that the color cotton that is widely planted today is usually brown.

If you see other colored cotton on the market, please be vigilant.

If you want to buy dacron, nylon and other chemical fiber fabrics, you should use loose type to keep the space between the skin and fabric, so that the air can flow, breathe, or heat.

Three of illness: formaldehyde coating

Laboratory results: formaldehyde exceeded standard

Nouns explain: formaldehyde is a toxic substance to biological protoplasm. It can bind to proteins in organisms, alter protein structure and solidify them, thereby inducing diseases.

Etiological analysis:

In order to make clothes more smooth, wrinkle resistant, stronger colors, printing and dyeing and finishing, formaldehyde is often added as dyeing auxiliaries, preservatives and thickeners.

Young parents like to dress their children in pure cotton clothes, but they do not know that cotton textiles are wrinkled easily. Some manufacturers rely on auxiliaries containing formaldehyde to improve the stiffness of cotton fabrics.

Young parents also like to wear colorful clothes to their children, but colorful fabrics also rely on formaldehyde containing dyes.

When formaldehyde residues reach a certain value, it will do harm to human skin and body, but it can only be detected by instrument.

Harm:

Long term use of formaldehyde beyond the standard of textiles, free formaldehyde will be volatilized with the friction of clothing and human body, slowly accumulate after inhaling the body, can cause chronic respiratory diseases, conjunctivitis, laryngitis, asthma, bronchitis, etc. the most obvious symptoms are fatigue, insomnia, headache, cough, etc. skin contact with formaldehyde for a long time will cause rashes, which may lead to blood diseases and even cancer. Children may like to chew and suck textiles, and may directly produce toxic reactions.

National standard:

The national standard GB18401, "basic technical specifications for national textile products", stipulates that category a infant products, formaldehyde content is less than 20mg/kg, B type direct contact with skin products, formaldehyde content is less than 75mg/kg, C type non direct contact skin textiles, formaldehyde content is less than 300mg/kg.

Awareness index:

Reporter visits:

Reporters visited some shopping malls children's clothing counters to see that some infants and young children clothing need direct contact with the skin, the label shows the "GB18401 class a", "GB18401B class" or "GB18401C class" words stipulated by the national mandatory standards.

In some clothing wholesale markets, various children's clothes are dazzling and bright.

The reporter picked up a piece of clothing at random and got a sharp smell.

"Do you smell so big in your clothes? Do you have formaldehyde?" the reporter asked.

The boss answered very frankly: "many of the fabrics in clothing manufacture contain formaldehyde, which is not unusual."

However, when the reporter looked at the clothing tag, he did not find the value of formaldehyde content, only the number, composition, registration, inspection, registration number, grade and other items, and some did not even have a tag.

The reporter interviewed several people who were choosing children's clothing in the wholesale clothing market, and no one knew about the safety knowledge of children's clothing.

One of the consumers said that they chose clothes for children, usually looking at colors, fabrics and styles.

"Is not formaldehyde in decorating materials? How can there be formaldehyde in baby clothes? We really don't know how to distinguish it."

One consumer said.

During the interview, the reporters found that many clothing sellers did not know much about the new clothing standards introduced by the state in January 2010.

Prescription:

Children and infants clothing, one is to choose the best brands as far as possible, although some famous brands are also tested for formaldehyde exceeding the standard, but the safety is relatively high; two is to smell whether the clothes have pungent taste, such as mildew, gasoline, kerosene, fishy smell, smell or other odors; three, do not buy children's wrinkle resistant and bleached clothes, the color of infant clothing should be as simple as possible, try to choose light colored, less printed patterns, or small print and not very hard printed children's clothing, preferably white without printing; four, after buying clothes, whether they are underwear or coat, wash them with warm water before wearing them, and according to the quality of the sun in the appropriate drying. Buy

Because formaldehyde has a pungent odor and is easily soluble in water, if the new clothes contain formaldehyde, most of them can be removed by washing.

What needs special reminding is that some of the clothes are too high formaldehyde to smell, so it is safer to wash them.

If the child has allergic symptoms after wearing new clothes, he should go to the hospital for consultation with a dermatological specialist and receive treatment immediately.

Disease four: discoloration

Test results: dry colour fastness (grade) is not qualified.

Noun explanation: color fastness is the firmness of textiles in the process of using or processing, which is subjected to external factors (washing, friction, water immersion, sweat, sun, etc.), and is an important indicator of the quality of clothing.

The quality of color fastness directly affects the health and safety of the baby while it also causes other clothes to stain.

Clothing color fastness test is a delicate activity, which includes water resistance test, sweat resistance test, washability test, friction resistance test, saliva resistance and so on.

Etiological analysis:

First, the textile fabric is dyed firmly in the dyed fabric or not fully washed at the later stage, resulting in the fact that the amount of dye dye remaining on the fabric surface exceeds the standard; two is the poor quality of the dyestuff product.

Harm:

Dyestuff may be attached to the body after dyeing, and through the corresponding physiological reaction, it may cause changes in the structure and function of DNA, and become the inducing factor of human diseases (such as cancer or allergy).

When the clothes with poor color fastness meet with water, sweat or saliva, the pigments are easy to fall off and fade. The dye molecules and heavy metal ions in the pigment may be absorbed by the skin, which will endanger the health of the infants.

Awareness index:

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Clothes that are usually brightly colored and brightly colored are more likely to fade. If consumers doubt the firmness of clothing, wipe them on fabrics with wet paper towels. If they are stained, the color fastness of clothing is not up to standard.

As infants and young children are easy to suck clothes, the state has added an index of saliva color fastness to infant clothing of category a products to prevent direct inhalation of dyes and harm infant health.

It is suggested that when buying clothes for infants and young children, parents should first look at whether there are safety labels on clothing labels, such as category A or infant clothing, and clothes that are not clearly identified are harmful to infant health.

In addition, the relevant national standards also stipulate that infant clothing must be marked "not dry cleaned" on product labels.

Experts say dry cleaners may contain substances that stimulate the skin of infants and young children.