What Is The Difference Between The New Basic Safety Technical Specification For National Textile Products Issued In August And The Past?

New edition of concern in early 2011

GB18401-2010 (hereinafter referred to as the new national standard) was formally promulgated, and then aroused great concern in the domestic textile and garment industry.

After a year's pition period, the new GB will be formally implemented in August 1st this year.

The implementation of the new national standard has the greatest impact on children's clothing enterprises.

Because the new national standard changes the definition of infants from 24 months to less than 36 months and below, which means that children's clothing enterprises need to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to adjust the age of 2~3.

Product control.

At the same time, the ownership of children's clothing 2~3 years old according to the original standards is also a problem after August.

Zheng Yuying, Secretary General of the national textile Standardization Committee, has highly summarized the significance of the new national standard: "quality is the first hurdle for products to be based, and is also the most important part of improving the market share of enterprises."

It is the best tool to control quality, pform textile and clothing to energy saving and environmental protection, and improve industrial quality.

Inevitably, many major textile manufacturers will encounter many problems in the production process, including raw material utilization, process operation and so on.

Only by improving the quality and environmental awareness of all employees, and integrating environmental awareness and product safety awareness into the corporate culture, can employees' quality consciousness be deeply rooted in the bone marrow. At the same time, cleaner production should be promoted and strictly monitored and checked in various processing processes and production processes, so as to calmly cope with the impact of GB18401-2010 on the market.

Where is the new national standard "new"?

The national basic safety technical specification for textile products is a national mandatory standard. It is a necessary condition for the product to enter the market and is the most basic technical requirement for ensuring the harmlessness of textile products to human health. It plays a very important role in the production and sale of textiles, as well as routine supervision and inspection.

Therefore, it is particularly important to correctly understand the standard provisions and clarify the difference between the 2010 edition and the 2003 edition.

Compared with the 2003 edition, the new version of the 2010 Edition mainly has the following modifications:

I. scope of application

The 2010 edition of the standard applies in the scope of application, "this standard applies to the production, sale and consumption of domestic, textile and household textile products in our country.

Export products can be implemented in accordance with the contract agreement.

Note: the products enumerated in Appendix A do not fall within the scope of this standard, unless otherwise stipulated by the state. "

It can be seen that in the scope of application, "household textile products" are added, and "except for the agreement between the two sides of supply and demand" is deleted, that is, as long as it is produced and sold in our country, whether it is a separate agreement between the supplier and the buyer or imported textile products, it must meet the technical requirements of this standard, which is universal and mandatory.

Appendix A, which does not fall within the scope of this standard, further defines the scope of application of this standard, adds "disposable sanitary products", "bags, back bags, shoes, umbrellas, etc.", "carpet", and changes "decorative items such as decorative cloth, handicraft and other decorative objects" into "cloth arts and crafts".

Two. Definition of infant textile products

The definition of infant textile products is changed to "textile products worn or used by infants aged 36 months or less" by the 2003 edition of "textile products worn or used by infants aged 24 months or less".

At the same time, the applicable height of the 5.3 notes should be changed from "80 cm" to "100 cm".

Compared to the 2003 edition, the 2010 edition of the definition of infant textile products is more extensive, closer to the actual situation of infant height, and also puts forward higher technical requirements for infant textile products.

Among them, the new national standard imposed on children has the greatest impact on infant textile products.

In the old standard, infant textile products are defined as "textile products worn or used by infants aged 24 months or less". In the new national standard, they are replaced by "textile products worn or used by infants aged 36 months or less."

Three, product classification and presentation of basic safety technical requirements.

In the 2010 version of the standard clause 4.1, the representation method of product classification is changed from "A, B and C code + text description form" to express the classification method directly in the form of text description.

Clause 5.2 is changed to "infant textile products should meet category a requirements. Products directly exposed to skin should at least meet the technical requirements of category B products. The products that are not directly exposed to the skin should meet the requirements of category C at least", adding "at least" words.

The understanding of this change is very important.

The product classification and basic safety technical requirements category in the 2010 edition are two different concepts. Product classification is the classification of textile product attributes according to the end use of products (Appendix B gives classification examples), while category A, B and C represent technical requirements, and there is no corresponding equivalent relationship between them.

The 2003 edition standard is not clearly differentiated, generally understood as the corresponding relationship.

Because of this, after the 2010 edition of the standard will be formally implemented, there will be some confusion in the annotation format of the use of the instructions.

Four. Increased 4- amino azobenzene in carcinogenic aromatic amines.

The carcinogenic aromatic amines in Appendix C of the 2010 Edition increased the "4- amino azobenzene", and the number of carcinogenic aromatic amines increased from 23 to 24.

Relative to the 2003 edition, the 2010 edition of the standard is more stringent for the control of toxic and harmful substances, and it also puts forward higher requirements for the ability of inspection institutions.

In the normative reference document, GB/T 23344 was added, GB/T 17592.1 was changed to GB/T 17592, and the limit value of decomposable carcinogenic aromatic amines was added to footnote C of Table 1, which was less than 20 mg/kg, which improved the operability of carcinogenic aromatic amine detection.

At the same time, the detection of 4- azobenzene was specified in Clause 6.8. "In general, GB/T17592 is detected first and then detected by GB/T23344 when aniline or 1,4- benzene two amine is detected."

Five. Changes in pH requirements

In Table 1 of the 2010 version of the standard, the pH value of class B products is relaxed from 4.0~7.5 to 4.0~8.5. Compared with the 2003 version, the requirements are in line with the actual production situation of China's textile dyeing and finishing industry. Taking into account the influence of water quality differences and waste of water resources in different regions of China, the cost of dyeing and finishing enterprises has been reduced to a certain extent.

At the same time, the 2010 edition standard added "non final products" in footnote a to table 1, and made more explicit provisions for products that can be relaxed to 4.0~10.5 for easy understanding.

Six. No indication of color fastness.

The footnote B of Standard Version 1 of the 2010 edition is changed from "washing and discoloring products not required" to "non final products, natural color and bleaching products that need washing and discoloring process," and traditional hand-made coloring products such as tie dyeing and batik dyeing are not required; saliva fastness is only tested on textile products for young children.

At the same time, clause 5.2 added "decorative products such as curtains and suspension products not to assess the color fastness to perspiration".

This makes it more clear that the color fastness of washed jeans is also required for final products.

The 2010 version of the standard added some color fastness assessment, such as hand coloring products, natural and bleaching products, better reflects the adaptability and pertinence.

In addition, the 2010 edition also made some other changes, such as adjusting some examples in Appendix B, adding appendix D, including the contents of the 7.4 note.

Children's clothing for 2~3 years old

The biggest impact of the new GB should be on clothes worn by children aged 2~3. If they are produced according to the old GB and do not conform to the new GB standards, they will probably get off the shelves.

In this regard, the reporter interviewed the relevant experts.

Experts believe that such a situation is very low probability, because the new national standard was originally implemented last year, but taking into account the specificity of textile products, the implementation time will be postponed for 1 years as a buffer period.

The formulation and inspection institutions of the new national standard attach great importance to the promotion and training of the new national standard. As early as the beginning of 2011, they held lectures at the grass-roots level and across the country, allowing brands and dealers to have a comprehensive understanding of the new national standard, to promote the implementation and promotion of the new national standard, and to give the market sufficient time to fully accept the new standards.

Before the official implementation of the new national standard, the biggest task for the enterprise is to change the tag and digest the inventory.

However, since the new GB promotion time is long enough, enterprises have basically digested the 2~3 years old children's clothing that is produced according to the old national standard and does not conform to the new national standard. Therefore, enterprises should be very relaxed in dealing with the implementation of the new GB.

Experts' opinions have also been widely recognized by children's clothing enterprises.

Wang Sue, Minister of quality control of Semir apparel Zhejiang, said that after the establishment of the new standard, the state inspection institutions and the establishment institutions attached great importance to the visit, and visited the clothing enterprises in various regions for special training and explanation.

At the beginning of 2011, Zhejiang Semir apparel Limited by Share Ltd participated in the training of product testing specialist organized by Guangzhou fiber products testing institute.

The management of the company is aware of the importance of the new national standard and the urgency of implementing the new national standard. It also invited Zheng Yuying, Secretary General of the national textile Standardization Committee of the new national standard, to give lectures and answers to clothing suppliers and distributors.

Wang Sue said that the new national standard is compulsory, and the regular manufacturers will produce according to the new national standard.

The Barbara brand children's clothing of Zhejiang Semir dress Limited by Share Ltd, as early as 2011, according to the new national standard, made the tag of spring products.

And she said frankly that the biggest change in the formulation and implementation of the new GB for enterprises is to adjust the quality control and commodity operation part of the baby child group and the children's group.

This means that children who used to be 2~3 years old were divided from children group to baby group. Production requirements also changed from B clothing to class A, and there will be some adjustments in manpower and material resources allocation and scheduling.

However, it is the responsibility and obligation of an enterprise to strictly abide by the provisions of the state according to law.

After updating the national standard, there are also children's clothing enterprises which are less affected.

Li Xiangdong, general manager of Guangdong Dingxin Textile Co., Ltd., told reporters that textile products need to add various dyes, auxiliaries and other chemicals in the process of printing and dyeing, finishing and so on. These chemicals contain more or less harmful substances to the human body. When the content of their textiles reaches a certain value, they will cause harm to people's skin and health.

The new national standard divides the textiles into three categories: A, B and C. They are baby products, products that are directly exposed to the skin and products that are not directly exposed to the skin.

The specification provides clear restrictions on the safety and physical properties of three types of textiles, such as formaldehyde content, pH value, color fastness, etc., and stipulates that no odor and use of decomposable aromatic amine dyes should be allowed in the products.

Therefore, the implementation of the new national standard means that the enterprise will spend more money and material resources on the control of raw materials, and the cost will increase. However, the company's main brand of children's wear "baby bean Ding" just belongs to 3~14 years old children's clothing. It just doesn't affect the adjustment of the new national standard.