The New Regulation Is More Stringent On Infant Clothing, And The Market Has Not Yet Fully "Transition".

Whenever supplies are linked to children, parents pick up them more severely. In the past, when the novice parents bought clothes for their children, they basically rely on the old method of "one look, two touch, three sniffing". From this month, there are relevant regulations to help "escort" - the new version of the national basic safety technical specification for textile products has been enforced, and the infant clothing has been more strictly regulated.

　 "New regulations"

More stringent requirements for infant clothing

According to the reporter, the new version of the basic safety technical specification for national textile products (hereinafter referred to as the "new regulation") has been promulgated last year and has been implemented since August last year. After a year of transition, it began to be enforced from August this year. Friendship store quality supervision and management department introduced that the impact of the new regulations after the implementation of the biggest impact is infant clothing. The new standard extends the age of "infants" in the definition of infant textiles from 0~24 months to 0~36 months, and adjusts the height from 80 centimeters to 100 centimeters. This means that 0~3 year old textile products for infants and young children must meet the requirements of category A of the highest safety class.

According to the new regulation, textile products can be divided into three categories: Category A is infant products, that is, infants and young children who are less than 36 months old. B is a product that directly contacts the skin. When wearing or using, most of the products are directly exposed to human skin. C is a product that does not directly contact the skin. When wearing or using, the product does not directly contact with the human skin or only a small part of the area directly contacts with the human skin. In the sampling instructions, the new regulations also increased the color fastness, formaldehyde content, pH value, and decomposable carcinogenic aromatic amine dye samples. There are great differences in the technical requirements between category A and B products, and the category a requirements are the most stringent. For example, formaldehyde content, type a infant textile products must be equal to or less than 20 mg / kg, and B grade is equal to or less than 75 mg / kg.

In terms of the limits of harmful substances, the new regulations also put forward higher requirements. For the first time, the harmful aromatic amine 4- azobenzene, which might cause carcinogenesis, was included in the list of prohibited samples.

　　 Present situation

The market is not yet fully "transitional".

According to the new regulation, the product must be marked on the tag, including the implementation standard (including year), and according to the GB18401 standard, the safety technology category of the product is marked. That is to say, the textile products for infants and young children under 3 years old must be labeled with "baby products, class A, GB18401 2010". Although the new regulation has been in a transitional period for a year, many infant clothing manufacturers have not yet changed their production standards in a timely manner after the enforcement of the new regulations. The implementation of the clothing standards is still in 2003, including identification requirements and safety categories.

The eight way in Zhongshan Children's wear In a number of brand stores in the wholesale market, the IGO reporter asked if there were 2~3 years old children's clothes. The sale introduced several sets, and the labels on the labels were all B. Reporters in a number of shopping malls in the follow-up, found that most children's clothing failed to fully implement the new regulations, some only put the tag after the implementation of the standard number 2003 posted, leaving only the GB18401 logo, such as Disney's "beauty room"; some children's wear brand will even carry out the standard number omitted, only the safety standard number, such as "Karabear"; some have not yet enough time to change the tag, such as "Piyopiyo". In follow-up surveys, it was also found that children's wear for children under 100cm and below is B grade, such as "Disney", "Sunlovebaby" and "A+ excellent". Moreover, many shop assistants are not fully aware of the "new national standard". When a reporter consulted a new regulation to a shop assistant, some of the shop assistants thought that the standard number had been changed. The clothing of their brand was still up to standard. A few salesmen even thought that the B grade could be worn for 2-3 year old children.

Some international brands are relatively high in implementation of the new GB. For example, the "Hallmark" and "Kidswawa" from the United States are all in line with the requirements of the new national standard. In these counters, reporters learned that the implementation of the new regulations is also related to the brand product category. The brand is the main product of the newborn clothing, all its products are aimed at children under 3 years old, the quality requirements are relatively high, basically are class a clothing.

In many department stores, most of the children's clothes that fail to meet the standards are sold at a low price of less than half off, or even 2-3. The new products in the new season are only about 20 percent off. There are people in the clothing industry who believe that the implementation of the new regulation has a certain time lag from production to circulation. It is possible that the clothing produced last year is still in sale this year, so some brands will appear non-standard. Therefore, he suggested that parents should choose "to see and smell" when choosing clothes for infants and young children.