Formaldehyde Content Ph Value Exceeding Standard Is Still The Main Unqualified Items Of Children'S Wear.

"Still choose the brand children's clothing", shopping malls are choosing children's Day gifts for daughters, and Ms. Wang Hua, who lives in Mingguang District of Haidian District, Beijing, said: "although expensive, at least the quality is guaranteed."

This also tells the hearts of many parents.

From all previous AQSIQ results on children and infant clothing products, the overall pass rate of products has been improved. However, several key projects such as formaldehyde content exceeding standard, pH value exceeding standard, fiber content and content inconsistent with logo and prominent color fastness have repeatedly become the "culprit" leading to the failure of children's clothing, and most of these problems come from small and medium-sized enterprises.

From the 1992 edition of the first edition of children's wear product standard FZ/T81003-1991, "boys and girls single clothing" came out, to 2003, the implementation of the second edition of children's wear standard FZ/T81003-2003 "children's clothing, student clothes", and then to the implementation of the "ecological textile technical requirements" issued by the same year for the issue of ecological textile safety, and the formal implementation of the 3 new children's wear national standard of our country since August 1st this year, with the increasing attention to the green environmental protection of children's clothing today, the formulation and revision of children's wear standards are constantly being perfected and followed up.

Unqualified fabrics and clothing have their own problems.

"Formaldehyde content, pH value, fiber composition and content, color fastness and other items are all mandatory national standard requirements. Indeed, in recent years, these projects are more concentrated."

Kong Liping, director of the national fiber quality supervision and inspection center, said.

Formaldehyde content refers to the quantity of formaldehyde released from garment fabrics, also known as free formaldehyde content.

Formaldehyde has a strong stimulant effect on skin and eye mucous membrane. If there is excess formaldehyde in textiles, it will gradually release with the wearing process. It will cause harm to the human body through the skin and respiratory tract of the body, especially the skin and respiratory tract of infants and young children easily irritated.

According to the standard, the formaldehyde content of infant products should be less than 20mg/kg. The formaldehyde content of products directly exposed to skin should be less than 75mg/kg, and the formaldehyde content of products directly exposed to skin should be less than 300mg/kg.

According to industry sources, low-grade fabric production process, often add a large number of formaldehyde dyeing auxiliaries and resin finishing agent, the purpose is to make the clothes do not wrinkle, do not shrink, do not fade.

Clothing enterprises in the processing process, did not remove clean, will lead to formaldehyde exceeding the standard.

"At present, there are environmentally-friendly textile auxiliaries available for children's clothing businesses. However, some small businesses are still trying to maximize their benefits and use contaminated additives, and they lack the necessary inspection and control tools.

In this way, the fabric produced by the fabric factory is not qualified itself, and some garment factories also choose to buy low quality and cheap fabrics for the sake of cost saving and lax checks. "

Kong Liping said: "for most of the unqualified children's clothing, the source of the problem is mostly in the fabric factory. Compared to the fabric factory, the problem is far from the garment factory."

The same problem is also reflected in the pH value exceeding the standard.

Ma Xuelin, manager of quality control department of parkland limited liability company in Beijing, has a deep feeling: "for the enterprises that manufacture children's clothing, it is very important to keep good quality control. Both in the assessment and evaluation of fabric manufacturers, and in the production supervision of garment enterprises, we must strictly control them."

She said, for example, many children's clothing on the market has been detected pH value exceeds the standard, the direct reason is that the fabric production enterprises used a lot of alkaline substances in the dyeing and finishing process, and did not take a reasonable neutralization process.

"If the fabric enterprises are not evaluated and evaluated, in order to reduce the cost and reduce the cleaning process, the fabric that they first come in is unqualified, and the enterprises will cut corners again and again," everything is simple ", then the product is definitely not qualified.

"Color fastness is also a prominent problem."

Ma Xuelin said that color fastness is mainly due to the fact that dyes must be fasten on fibers, especially on water, friction, sweat stains and saliva. Otherwise, during the wearing process, the dye will fall off and pfer to the skin, which will harm the human body or stain the light colored clothes, which will affect the consumers' health and beauty.

Especially infants and young children's clothing, because infants often bite their clothes and other things in their mouths, causing children to suck the dye residue into their mouths and get hurt.

"The main reason for this problem is that clothing companies fail to inspect fabrics before they are put into production. The raw materials purchased are not used to assess the contents of children's clothing according to the standard requirements. Therefore, as enterprises choose fabrics, they must be tested according to the product standards, and the standard fabric can only be put into production."

In 2003, the China clothing association children's wear Specialized Committee annual meeting report pointed out that one of the reasons why the related inspection items exceed the standard can not be ignored because the enterprises lack control and detection means in the selection of surface and accessories, and reflect the bottleneck problem of children's clothing accessories and the deepening development of the upstream and downstream industry chain.

Insiders pointed out that China's children's clothing accessories market has already been unable to meet the development needs of children's clothing industry, and many children's clothing sampling results show that most of the quality problems are on the surface accessories.

First, the formaldehyde content exceeded the standard; two, the color fastness was poor.

The report pointed out that, on the one hand, because children's clothing production requires a small batch of fabrics and many colors, it is difficult to make large orders to the specialized fabric manufacturers. Therefore, the purchase of children's accessories is still concentrated in the textile city and fabric wholesale market.

On the other hand, although the order is small, infant clothing is required for environmental protection and special properties such as saliva color fastness, so the cost of specialized procurement of surface accessories has also been raised.

This led to the fact that the quality of products was difficult to control and the fabric of children's clothing was identical.

Green calls for continuous development of standards

According to incomplete statistics, there are at least 1 children's clothing manufacturers in China, mainly concentrated in Zhejiang, Shanghai, Fujian and Guangdong. There are about 6000 children's clothing manufacturers in a certain scale, while there are less than 200 well-known children's clothing enterprises.

Related people pointed out that the domestic children's wear market is facing fierce competition. How to improve product quality and technology content has become a key factor in building children's wear brand.

Children's clothing styles are upgrading rapidly, and new varieties, new technologies, new materials and new equipment are springing up.

In order to further improve the quality of children's clothing products in China, children's clothing product standards must also keep pace with them.

"In recent years, children's wear standards have been constantly formulated and improved, and the quality of children's clothing has also been improved in general."

Kong Liping said.

From the first edition of children's clothing product standard in 1992 to the second edition of children's wear standard in 2003, and then to the "eco textile technical requirements" for the issue of ecological textile safety in the same year, the standard of children's clothing in China has been stricter and thinning from product appearance detection to physical and chemical property detection, and it is also developing towards a safer, more environmental friendly and comfortable direction.

The 3 new children's wear standards, which are officially implemented in August 1st this year, "safety requirements for children's ropes and belts", "Safety specifications for children's tops and belts" and "implementation standards for improving children's clothing design and production safety", indicate that China has established a standard system for children's wear.

It is understood that at present, China has initially set up a standard system for children's clothing, including basic standards, method standards, product standards, safety standards and so on, and the overall level has reached the international advanced level.

In recent years, with the rise of the wave of international green textiles, all countries are actively developing and producing products that are conducive to human health and environmental protection, especially in the research and production of accessories for children's clothing. The industry believes that under the fierce market competition, "green environmental protection" has become a new trend in the development of international children's clothing. Environmental protection and health have become a major direction in the development of children's clothing.

"Nowadays, new surface accessories are constantly emerging, instead of single cloth, polyester cotton, corduroy and so on, and become mainstream fabrics. It is an inevitable choice for enterprises to take the lead in adopting green fabrics and ensure no pollution and pollution."

Ma Xuelin said.