Children'S Clothing Formaldehyde Exceeds Standard Becomes Health Killer

According to the Research Report of China children's products market, the market scale of children's articles in China will exceed 100 billion yuan by 2010, and children's clothing will increase by about 16.7% every year.

However, according to statistics from the Capital Institute of Pediatrics, more than 5% of children's disease is caused by poor children's products, especially in children's clothing and infant clothing fabrics, which is one of the biggest killer of children's health.

Why did the children's clothes contain formaldehyde? Reporters interviewed a number of consumers who wanted to buy children's clothing in a shopping mall in Beijing.

Found that more than 90% of people do not know that children's fabric contains formaldehyde.

Mother Li wants to buy clothes for the baby.

When the reporter asked if it was clear that infant clothing might contain formaldehyde, "is not formaldehyde in decoration materials? How can it be formaldehyde in baby clothing? Is it a toxic garment that children wear?" she asked in surprise.

Mr. Shi said, "I often go to the mall to buy clothes and shoes for my 6 year old son. I often go to the wholesale clothing market of the zoo, but I have never heard of formaldehyde in children's clothing, and I have never seen any indication on the label."

Reporters in several shopping malls and a wholesale market, asked 13 consumers in a row, 12 people do not know, not clear.

Why does infant clothing or children's clothing contain formaldehyde? According to the analysis of quality inspection experts, the production enterprises add a large amount of formaldehyde dyeing auxiliaries and resin finishing agents in the production process of fabrics, the purpose is to make the clothes wrinkle free, not shrink and fade.

However, if children are put on such clothes, formaldehyde will be released slowly. After inhaling, the most obvious symptoms are fatigue, insomnia, headache, cough and so on. Skin will cause rash for long term exposure to formaldehyde, which will have a serious impact on the growth and development of infants.

The experts of Tianjin textile fiber inspection institute once told reporters that pure cotton textiles are wrinkled easily, and the auxiliaries of cotton fabrics can be improved by using auxiliaries containing formaldehyde.

Manufacturers use very high formaldehyde cheap additives, can produce colorful fabrics to meet people's sense of visual pursuit, but azo dyes used in printing and dyeing can induce cancer, formaldehyde, halide carriers and heavy metals have become health killers.

Plain clothes and no print patterns of children's clothing formaldehyde content is low.

A silent reporter in front of the "killer", a reporter at a wholesale clothing market in Lishui, saw dozens of children's clothing stalls with various styles of baby, child and children's clothes.

However, all the labels of clothing are only number, composition, registration, inspection, registration number and grade. No "GB18401 class a", "GB18401B class" or "GB18401C class" stipulated by the national mandatory standards are found. There is no word "safety class A," "safety class B class" or "safety category C class".

Class A is for infant clothing, formaldehyde content should not exceed 20mg/kg; class B is clothing directly touching the skin, formaldehyde content should not exceed 75mg/kg; class C is clothing that does not touch the skin, formaldehyde content should not exceed 300mg/kg.

When interviewed by a customer, he asked seven or eight salesmen in a row, and she or he did not know or answer questions about whether it was clear that babies, children and children contained formaldehyde in their children's clothing.

Consumers who buy clothes here do not know formaldehyde.

Before a booth, a reporter and a young couple chatted and asked if they knew that the infant clothing might contain toxic substances formaldehyde. They were surprised to say, "no, I don't understand!" other consumers chose clothes to pay attention to asking prices, looking at brands, picking flowers, identifying materials, choosing sizes, and even many people simply did not see the tag on clothing, or simply did not know what should be written on the tag.

From this we can see that although the national mandatory standards are expressly expressed, the manufacturers do not test, hang up cards are not labeled, businessmen do not ask, sellers do not specify, and buyers do not know clearly, which makes formaldehyde children's clothes look like consumers.

Although there are consumers everywhere complain that children wear new underwear soon all the body itching, mood irritability, but to find the business, but not to be ignored.

Reporters can not help but feel that the ignorance of consumers has just become an umbrella for illegal producers to make profits and damage infants and children's health.

Yang Jing: editor in charge