Focus On Plasticizers: Who Pays For Safety Hazards For Children'S Clothing?

Following the exposure of plasticizer in Taiwan, domestic food and medicine

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Guangdong Quality Supervision Bureau recently sampled children and infants from 97 enterprises in 7 cities such as Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Foshan.

According to Zhang Yulian, senior engineer of the national textile and garment product quality supervision and Inspection Center (Guangzhou), plasticizer is widely used as a polymer material additive in the industry. In children's clothing, plasticizers are often used, such as pigment printing, plastic accessories, ornaments, etc. infants may be directly inhaled by plasticizer through mastication and sucking.

According to its introduction, in foreign countries, laws and regulations have already been used to limit the use of plasticizers in infants and children's products. In addition, the project of checking the plasticizer has been added in the safety technical specification for infant and child textile products, which is currently being submitted for approval, which stipulates that the total amount of 6 kinds of o-phenyl two formate should not exceed 0.1%.

But at present, no organization has the ability to ask enterprises to prohibit the use of plasticizer in the production of children's clothing. We can only publicize it on some occasions, calling on enterprises to pay attention to the safety protection of children and infants in the use of chemical products in some products, as well as the structural design of product clothing.

Under the plagued by the pollution of plasticizer, ensuring the health of children needs mandatory provisions. The introduction of the new national standard is particularly urgent.

Manufacturers: Children's wear industry to survive in the scrimmage, plasticizers and other safety issues are not considered.

In China, 380 million of the 0-16 year old consumers account for 1/4 of the total population of the country. This huge amount has become a necessary prerequisite for the rapid development of children's wear industry in China.

Through the statistics of the key large-scale retail enterprises in China, the sales of children's clothing in China have increased by 26.8%, 16.4% and 31.7% over the past three years, and will increase at this rate in the next few years.

However, the rapid development of children's wear industry and the low threshold status have led to the lags behind in the supervision of children's wear industry, so that illegal manufacturers can take advantage of them.

Xu Jianceng, Secretary General of the national garment Standardization Technical Committee, said: "some enterprises are not concerned about the management of standards. No special personnel are responsible, leading to the backwardness of enterprise standard information. After the product is disqualified, the relevant indicators have been updated.

There is also a standard cognitive problem. The relevant personnel of enterprises do not understand the substance of the standard regulations, and can not use standards to guide production, resulting in quality problems and economic losses to enterprises. "

In addition, the national fiber textile and clothing product quality supervision and inspection center of Kong Liping said, "a lot of small and medium-sized enterprises because of the inability to set up the test room, relaxed the inspection of the product, the quality of the finished product is not well checked."

An unnamed children's clothing manufacturer told reporters that although children's clothing industry is developing rapidly, the threshold is relatively low, but it is not a profit without any risk.

In recent years, with the soaring prices of raw materials and the increase of the cost of employees, children's clothing manufacturers can only reduce the production cost of children's clothing as much as possible in order to improve their profits.

In addition to some brands of children's clothing, many children's clothing sold on the market now comes from small and medium-sized cottage children's clothing manufacturers, and even family workshops. There are no basic safety categories, nor can they be equipped with professional quality inspectors.

"What we need to consider is how to sell more goods, so that enterprises can survive in the brutal market competition. As long as they do not check their own factories, they need not be considered at all."

Ji'nan Luokou clothing city children's clothing wholesale shop, a shop advocate Mr. told reporters that their entire children's clothing store purchase channel is basically the same, sometimes there is "enter the heavy goods" between the shops, most of which come from Wenzhou and near Qingdao children's clothing factory.

The purchase cost of a winter children's clothing is mostly between 10-20 yuan. The summer wear may come in a package of tens of dollars. After deducting labor costs, pportation charges, factory charges and machine maintenance costs, the cost of raw materials is very low, and the quality level can be imagined.

For the salaried class, the brand children's clothing sold in the hypermarket is too high. "At least 2/3 of the parents in Ji'nan come here to buy children's clothes for their children."

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Store: we only promise to sell as brand goods, we can not guarantee absolute safety.

News reports about plasticizers in children's clothing, the reporter made an unannounced visit to several well-known children's wear stores in Ji'nan.

3 staff members of the baby Belle mother and baby square in Ji'nan normal road said they were unaware of the news reports of children's clothing containing plasticizers, and did not receive relevant instructions and documents from the company headquarters.

For journalists asked whether the children's clothing will also contain plasticizers? A staff member told reporters, "we sell children's clothing are brand goods, quality assurance, let the children worry about wear on the line."

The reporter asked if there was a quality problem and harming the children's health store how to deal with it? The staff member said, "the store will make compensation according to the actual situation. At present, there is no customer feedback on children's health hazards due to clothing safety problems. Please feel free to buy."

And repeatedly reiterated that the market is sold for brand children's clothing, the quality is reliable.

Tang, who works in a law firm in Ji'nan, told reporters that it is not easy to operate such a case of child rights protection which is harmful to children's health because of children's clothing containing plasticizer.

Because even if a laboratory test confirms that the child does contain plasticizers, it can not be used as evidence for children's clothing.

After all, plastic products, beverages, medicines and so on that children are exposed to only one day may contain plasticizers, while plasticizer may cause damage to the human body in a short time.

Parents: buying brand by hand feel, there is no plasticizer, we can not distinguish.

The health of children is a top priority for parents.

But for plasticizer problems, most parents have fluke psychology.

A random survey of 17 female employees who had children in a private hospital in Ji'nan found that there were also problems with plasticizer in children's clothing. 11 people said they had never heard of it, and the remaining 6 said they were very helpless because they could not identify whether to buy clothes containing plasticizer, and 17 of them condemned illegal manufacturers. 8 people said that buying clothes mainly considered the style with their children's opinions, 13 said buying children's clothing, and 7 said they only chose large stores to buy children's brand children's clothing.

Han teacher, who teaches English in Ji'nan 11, told reporters that "now the businessmen are too black hearted to make quilts with black heart cotton, and wash clothes one after another, which is very serious. The price of clothing has gone up, but the quality has come down.

Most of all, children's clothing is exposed to plasticizers. Children are the most vulnerable groups that should be protected by all sectors of society. They should not extend their black hands to them.

In addition, the national regulatory authorities should also reflect on it. Why is it so popular now? Because people understand that foreign countries have strict safety audit procedures for children's clothing imports, just like a Green Fortress, which fundamentally solves the problem of children's clothing safety hidden trouble.

Our parents can only spend a lot of money on shopping for brand children's clothing for the sake of their children's health. Even if they know that they may not have any quality problems, they are at least more relieved than children's clothes bought by roadside stores.

Before the introduction of new regulations for plasticizers, we can only do our best to make plasticizers.

Fan fan, who runs a clothing store, said, "since ZARA's casual pants have detected formaldehyde exceeding the standard, I have completely lost confidence in brand children's clothing. No one can trust herself.

Now that children's clothes are exposed to plasticizers, I share with my sisters about my experience of buying children's clothes, which is just like everyone else's smell and touch. Generally, inferior chemicals contain pungent taste, soft hands, at least babies are comfortable to wear, and then try to avoid complex processes such as painting and printing. Try to choose some simple styles of children's clothing.

As for some of the hidden dangers of heavy metals that we can't see in the report, it's not our ordinary people who can decide. They can only listen to their fate and hope that they will not be so hapless.

Through unannounced visits, it is discovered that from businessmen, stores to parents, they do not want to ignore the problem of plasticizer in children's clothing, but each has their own "difficulties": the manufacturers are forced to cut down their expenses and neglect the process of quality and safety inspection. The store is too trusting in the "credibility of the brand". It means that children's safety risks are all related to their own business, and parents can not tell whether there is plasticizer in the purchase of children's clothing, so they have no choice but to passively ignore this hidden danger.

And who should pay for the safety hazard of plasticizer for children? Why is it that the safety specification for infants and children's textile products has not been examined and approved in the past two years? This deserves the attention of the whole society and the profound reflection of relevant departments.