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.

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Event: brand jacket washed out three pots of black water

Ms. sun recently bought a long black shirt in a H&M store located in a shopping mall in Beijing.

"How can the brand clothes fade so badly? What harmful chemicals will be contained?" after receiving Ms. sun's complaint, the author made third cleaning with her clothes, which was cold water and no cleaning agent was added.

The author 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 spread to gray black.

Is it a case of clothing discoloration? On the 11 day, the author 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.

The author understands that the state has a clear quality and safety standard for the clothing industry, which has clear content requirements for formaldehyde content, pH value, color fastness, peculiar smell, decomposable carcinogenic aromatic amine dyes 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 return them?

The author recently visited a number of H&M stores in Beijing, and did not see the clothes. They sold out or went off the shelves, and the staff said they did not know it. "If they were taken back and tested, they really fell. They should belong to quality problems" and they could 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.

The author noted that the production area of the clothing was 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 replied to the author's reply: "H&M each garment needs to pass different tests to 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 I asked whether the clothes would be re examined in the third party inspection institutions in the country? Whether the test results were guaranteed to meet the national standards? The public relations department official said, "it is not yet sure." 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.

She said that due to the impact of pportation environment and other problems, we dare not say 100 percent of the third party testing results will meet the national standards.

Industry and Commerce: factory inspection report is not approved.

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 rights and Interests Protection Office of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of industry and Commerce and the Beijing Huijia law firm, also expressed the same view.

Cao, director of Consumer Protection Department of Beijing industrial and commercial bureau, said that the manufacturer's own test report can not be used as a basis for product qualification. Only by testing the report issued by a qualified third party testing agency in China, can it 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.

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Industry: a considerable number of enterprises do not submit inspection

An industry expert told the author that "national textile basic safety technical specification" has clear restrictions on formaldehyde content, pH value, color fastness, odor, and decomposable carcinogenic aromatic amine dye. According to the requirements of the index, it can be divided into three categories: A, B and C.

Taking formaldehyde as an example, the formaldehyde content of a class of products, that is, infant products, must be less than 20 mg / kg; B products, that is, products directly touching the human skin, must be less than 75 mg / kg of formaldehyde; C products, that is, products directly exposed to human skin, must contain less than 300 mg / kg of formaldehyde.

"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 of clothing can be seen in the test report

The Beijing Consumers Association also analyzed the causes of defects in product quality when interviewed by the media. It was considered that some enterprises, in order to reduce costs and save test fees, were only detected according to the data supplied by cloth suppliers, and did not detect fabrics before production, resulting in fiber content, color fastness, formaldehyde and pH values which did not meet the national standard requirements. Two, the enterprises obtained the test reports, only to meet the requirements of the shopping malls, only to detect several indicators, resulting in the false appearance of the 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.

News links: clothing brand in recent years frequent explosion "quality gate"

In June 2010, the Guangzhou Municipal Council and the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of industry and Commerce announced the results of random sampling of children's products. The "Queen baby BABYCREATIONS" 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.

In April 2011, the Beijing Consumers Association announced the results of the comparative test of 57 kinds of casual pants in the Beijing market, 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%.

Levi, s, JESSIE, H&M, VEROMODA, PLAYBOY and many other famous brands were tested unqualified.

The unqualified items were mainly concentrated in the pH value, color fastness, fiber content and crack degree.