Clothing Quality Doors Are Becoming More And More Intense &Nbsp; H&M Acknowledges That The Discoloration Garments Are Not Being Submitted For Inspection.

The H&M black sweater bought by Ms. sun in the public has washed out three pots of black water. H&M company has provided a quality report on its testing by its production office testing center in India, but the Beijing industry and Commerce Bureau has not endorsed the report. The "quality gate" of clothing is becoming more and more intense. More and more clothing brands have been inspected and unqualified. quality Guan became an urgent problem.

Event:

Brand jackets wash out three basins of black water.

Ms. sun recently bought a black long dress shirt at the H&M store in a shopping mall in Beijing at a price of 79.9 yuan. After returning home, Ms. sun accidentally washed clothes and found that the newly bought clothes were fading. "Wash out a basin of black water." Ms. Sun said, at first, she thought that the clothes might have some floating colors, so they had cleaned second times after drying, and washed out a basin of black water again.

"How did brand clothes fade? Will there be any harm? Chemistry Matter? " After receiving Ms. sun's complaint, our reporter did third cleaning with his clothes. He chose cold water and did not add any detergent. The reporters found that when the clothes had just entered the water, the water began to become cloudy. The original water without color was covered with a layer of light gray. With the gentle hands, the color of the water became more and more deep, and the whole basin of water slowly diffused into grey black.

Is clothes discoloration a case? Yesterday, the reporter searched the Internet and found that there were not a few netizens who complained about H&M clothes fading. Media reports showed that H&M was on the list of many unqualified clothing lists released by the State Administration of quality supervision, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other quality supervision departments.
Reporters learned that the state has a clear quality and safety for the clothing industry. standard The standard has clear content requirements for formaldehyde content, pH value, color fastness, peculiar smell, decomposable carcinogenic aromatic amine dye and so on. Once this standard is exceeded, the product is unqualified.

Response:

H&M acknowledges that it has not been tested by the third party.

So, does H&M fade clothes belong to quality problems? Can consumers be returned?

Reporters recently visited a number of H&M stores in Beijing, did not see this paragraph. clothes Is it sold out or off shelves? The staff said they were not aware of it. "If they are taken back and tested, they must be a quality problem". They can be returned.

In this regard, H&M public relations department also provided an official reply, indicating that the clothing had passed the quality inspection of the testing center of India H&M production office. H&M China has reflected the situation to headquarters, and will strengthen the quality control.

Reporters noted that the clothing marked the production site is India. The Public Relations Department explained that H&M clothing testing would normally be detected in the factory itself or outside laboratory, which was detected in its own factory. At the same time, she also admitted that it had not been tested by third party testing organizations in the country.

H&M replies to reporters in an email saying: "H&M each. clothing Different tests are required before they can be sent to the store for sale (for example: shrinkage, distortion, color fastness, idling and fuzzing test). The product safety legislation under H&M must be the most stringent legislation among all the countries in which it operates. "

When the reporter asked whether the clothes will be re examined in the domestic third party testing organization? Is the test result consistent with the national standard? Public relations official said, "it is not yet clear." because the clothes sold better, there are only more than 50 pieces left in the country, which are distributed in dozens of stores in the country, and have not been found yet. The staff have been arranged to find them. She said that due to the impact of transportation environment and other problems, we dare not say 100 percent of the third party testing results will meet the national standards. {page_break}

Business and Industry:

Do not approve factory inspection report

Wang, a testing center of the China Textile Industry Association, said that the test reports issued by the manufacturers were up to their own standards, but whether they met the relevant domestic standards could not be determined.

Qiu Baochang, the Consumer Protection Office of Beijing industrial and commercial bureau and Beijing Huijia law firm, also expressed the same view. Cao, director of the consumer protection department of Beijing industrial and commercial bureau, said that manufacturers' own testing reports could not be used as products. qualified Only when the test reports issued by the third party testing institutions in the country are re issued can they be judged. He also said that the three wash out of black water has already explained the problem. Consumers can report to the industry and Commerce Association or consumer association when they encounter similar situations, and the relevant departments will first ensure the interests of consumers and mediate between consumers and businesses. The industry and Commerce Department will also supervise the brand according to consumers' reports.

Beijing Huijia law firm Qiu Baochang believes that once the quality of clothes is identified, consumers can ask the manufacturers to return the goods and claim corresponding losses.

Although it is still inconclusive whether or not it is in line with national standards, the H&M side said that after sales service personnel have contacted customers and will return the goods unconditionally, while customers can freely choose the same goods in the shop as a gift for H&M to apologize to customers. At present, the customer has accepted the advice.

Industry:

A considerable number of enterprises do not submit inspection.

An industry expert told reporters that "national textile basic safety technical specifications" in formaldehyde content, pH value, color fastness, odor, decomposable carcinogenic aromatic amine dyes have clear constraints, according to the degree of indicators are divided into A, B, C three categories. Taking formaldehyde as an example, the formaldehyde content of a class of products, that is, infant products, must be less than 20 mg / kg; class B product The content of formaldehyde must be less than 75 mg / kg, and the formaldehyde content of C products, which is directly exposed to human skin, must be less than 300 mg / kg.

"This standard is a mandatory standard." Experts said that production units and distribution units must be strictly enforced in the process of production, processing and sale. However, the domestic manufacturers did not strictly require the manufacturers to submit the inspection. They only took the sampling inspection method, which enabled some enterprises to have the opportunity to exploit loopholes. "So to speak, a considerable number of enterprises are not inspecting, or in order to reduce costs and pick up projects for testing, some tests will not be done."

The words of an industry expert were approved by a person who had engaged in the design work of a brand garment. He said that some enterprises even sell after being unqualified, "the shopping malls are stricter, but some stores (manufacturers shop on the roadside) are less regulated and have more problems."

Recommendation:

Purchase clothing can be seen test report

Beijing Consumers Association also analyzed the products in an interview with the media. quality The reason for the defect is that some enterprises reduce the cost and save the cost of testing. Only the data supplied by the supplier and the fabric are not detected before the production, resulting in fiber content, color fastness, formaldehyde and pH value which do not meet the national standard requirements. Two, the enterprise obtains the test report, the purpose is only to meet the requirements of the shopping malls, only to detect several indicators, resulting in the false appearance of the enterprise products in line with the national standards.

Zhang, a Beijing clothing quality supervision and inspection station, suggested that when people choose to buy branded clothes, if they have doubts, they can ask for inspection reports from merchants.

Experts say formaldehyde, aromatic amines, pH value and color fastness will pose a potential health threat to wearers. Poor color fastness will lead to heavy metal outflow. Consumers are advised to wash and dress before buying clothes. Meanwhile, consumers should also retain their shopping vouchers so as to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests after quality problems arise. {page_break}

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Fashion brand explosion in recent years, "quality gate"

In June 2010, the Guangzhou Municipal Council and the Guangzhou Municipal Industrial and commercial bureau announced the announcement. children The results of the sampling inspection showed that the "Queen baby BABY CREATIONS" brand T-shirt detected more than 200% of formaldehyde.

In July 2010, the Beijing industrial and commercial bureau announced the results of clothing sampling, a total of 65 kinds of clothing were exposed unqualified, of which "full Fuxin" and "Chuang Jinwei" two clothing found carcinogenic aromatic amine dyes, has been ordered to withdraw from the market.

April 2011, Beijing Consumer Association The results of the comparative test of 57 kinds of casual pants in Beijing market were released, and 20 sample test items did not meet the national standard requirements, accounting for 35% of the total samples. Among them, ZARA contains a wool product measured and nominal does not match; G2000 sample pH value exceeds standard; "gold crocodile" and "Brian BRUIN" two samples of formaldehyde content is high; MEXX, observation, ZARA, G2000 and so on nearly 3 of the sample is easy to fade.

In August 2011, the Guangzhou industrial and commercial bureau's overall monitoring of the quality of casual wear in Guangzhou's circulation area showed that the passing rate of Guangzhou casual wear was only 68%. Many famous brands such as Levi, s, JESSIE, H&M, VERO MODA, PLAYBOY were tested unqualified. The unqualified items were mainly concentrated in the pH value, color fastness, fiber content and crack degree.