Underwear Quality Problems Occur Frequently, Low-End Competition Turns Into Vicious Competition

Recently, news of unqualified underwear quality in China frequently appeared in the newspapers: in the quality monitoring announcement of knitted underwear issued by the relevant departments of Tianjin on August 10, the nominal "Liangde" fashion underwear and "VERO MODA Visaman" knitted shirt were unqualified. Previously, 8 batches of unqualified products exposed in Xi'an involved Shenzhen Shuangqiang people Clothes & Accessories Ltd., Jiangsu Yalu Holding Co., Ltd. and other well-known brand companies; The batch of products exposed in Shanghai involves such brands as Jania, Mansettine, Tingmei and Audifen.

Looking back at the first half of last year, Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Quality Supervision announced that knitted underwear shoes According to the quality supervision and spot check of 9 types of products, 28 batches were rejected after the identification was rejected, including the "Alissa" bra produced by Dongguan Yingzi Clothing Co., Ltd. in March 2011 and the "Alicia" bra produced by Dongguan Ailachi Underwear Co., Ltd. in August 2010, which were spot checked, and were blacklisted because the product instructions were unqualified. In addition, Dongguan is a healthy companion clothing The company's "Yifen" underpants were also found to be unqualified in the instructions and fiber content.

　　 Why does the quality of many underwear decline and frequently appear unqualified?

Low end competition turns into vicious competition

According to the analysis of the insiders, the reason for the decline of the qualification rate is that the cost of producing underwear is increasing, which leads to the decline of the net profit of the enterprise. Underwear manufacturers have relaxed the quality requirements for underwear processing costs in order to maximize profits in the production process. In recent years, the price of cotton, the raw material for underwear, has been rising. According to China's cotton price index, the average price of standard cotton has risen from 12831 yuan/ton in 2009 to 18165 yuan/ton in July this year. Since last October, cotton, chemical fiber, etc spin The price of raw materials has soared. As of June 30 this year, the domestic 328 cotton spot index was 18309 yuan/ton, up 42.6% over the same period last year.

In addition to the cost of raw materials, there are also rising labor costs. Taking Shenzhen as an example, the Shenzhen Municipal Government approved that the minimum wage for full-time workers in 2012 was 1500 yuan/month, an increase of 13.6% compared with the minimum wage of 1320 yuan/month in 2011. In order to minimize the production cost in this case, the enterprise Underwear Generally, chemical fiber with relatively low price is selected to replace cotton with rising price. In order to attract consumers' attention to the pursuit of cotton underwear, enterprises have marked their products as "cotton products" in the place where underwear is famous, which also exists the behavior of deceiving consumers. Besides the substandard quality of these cheap raw materials, the more important thing is that their dyeing, fiber and other ingredients are not conducive to human health. For example, the permeability and hygroscopicity of chemical fiber are relatively poor. When producing underwear, black heart manufacturers use chemical fiber products with poor permeability as raw materials, which can easily cause skin allergy.

Secondly, in the production process of underwear, enterprises do not strictly control the production process, which weakens the supervision of the production process. According to the current situation of China's industrial structure, there are a large number of individual and private garment manufacturers in the market, and some of these factories have not been certified by the relevant national departments, and the environmental sanitation in the production and processing of underwear cannot meet the standards.

Media reports show that the sanitary conditions of some underwear processing plants in black workshops are extremely poor, the air is not in circulation, and there is an obvious pungent smell; The workshop floor is full of various kinds cloth , flakes of black engine oil sprinkled around; When workers are processing, they even mix new and old fibers for simple rough processing. In addition, workers do not pay attention to personal hygiene, which leads to batches of unqualified underwear products.

Again Underwear industry The fierce competition leads to low-end competition of enterprises. The annual consumption of underwear in China is huge. Under the condition of lax supervision, enterprises have chosen to occupy the market in quantity and produce a large number of underwear in order to improve their competitiveness. As a result, the quality of underwear has not been guaranteed. Finally, the low-end competition has evolved into vicious competition, forming a situation where weight is not important.

　 It is urgent to improve the quality

According to the reporter, the spot check of underwear quality mainly focuses on formaldehyde, fiber content, logo, color fastness, air permeability and other items. Technicians revealed that because human skin is weakly acidic, the pH value of clothing products in direct contact with human skin is too high (pH value>7.5), which may change the weakly acidic environment of human skin, making the skin lose its function of inhibiting bacteria, thus having adverse effects on human health. The products with unqualified color fastness will cause the dye in the fabric to fall off and transfer to the skin, which may lead to skin allergy, cancer and other problems.

It is urgent to improve the current situation of the underwear industry. Some insiders said that as a long-term developing underwear enterprise, establishing a positive image should start from the quality of products. When selecting materials for underwear, we should pay attention to details, strictly control the quality of raw materials, and fundamentally eliminate the hidden dangers of unqualified quality.

Industry insiders pointed out that the government departments should support promising small and medium-sized enterprises in terms of policies and make more detailed regulations on underwear enterprises in terms of systems. When unqualified underwear products are found in the supervision process, the punishment should also be strengthened to increase the sense of responsibility and guard awareness of enterprises. As a consumer, when shopping for underwear, you should go to a formal place and try to choose some well-known underwear brand We should not covet cheap products. In addition, many people like to shop online now. They should also be vigilant when shopping. The quality of underwear cannot be ignored.