EU Strengthens Footwear Quality And Safety Supervision

< p > recently, the reporter learned from the Jinjiang Office of Quanzhou inspection and quarantine bureau that the EU has gradually increased its supervision over footwear quality and safety, and has reported a continuous upward trend.

As the main production base of footwear in China, the difficulty of export of footwear in Jinjiang has gradually increased.

It is reported that in 2013, Quanzhou area footwear related raw materials six price chromium failed rate of 6.7%.

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< p > according to the latest data of the State Administration of quality supervision, inspection and Quarantine (qqsiq), in 2014 1-4, the EU reported 37 cases of unsafe footwear products through a non food consumer alert system (RAPEX system), and the number of cases increased by 94.74% over the same period last year.

In the notification case, China's export footwear products accounted for 24, accounting for 64.87% of the total notification cases, and the number of notification cases increased by 200% over the same period.

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< p > > therefore, AQSIQ monitors and analyzes the recall cases, and concludes that the EU's supervision on footwear quality and safety is mainly manifested in the following aspects: on the one hand, the monitoring of harmful chemical substances content of products is intensified.

In the above notification cases, the proportion of hazardous chemicals exceeded 31, accounting for 83.78%, an increase of 36.41% over the same period last year.

Among them, the content of six valent chromium in leather is over 25, which has become the main reason for the recall.

On the other hand, technical trade measures related to footwear products are being tightened.

Mainly manifested in the European Commission has adopted the REACH code annex amendment proposal (commonly known as six valent chromium draft).

The proposal will be fully implemented in May 1, 2015.

Since last year, 10 countries in the European Union have been informed about the imported leather products exceeding the standard value of six valent chromium.

With the full implementation of the bill, the EU's footwear safety bulletin is on the rise.

At the same time, the number of notified countries was mainly concentrated, including Germany, France and Spain. The number of notified cases was 19, 9 and 5 respectively.

Among them, the German recall recall cases were all six valent chromium content.

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< p > according to the monitoring data of export footwear and related enterprises by Quanzhou inspection and Quarantine Bureau, according to the EU's six price chromium limit standard, the six price chromium disqualification rate of leather raw materials and accessories in Quanzhou area in 2013 was 6.7%.

The above data are enough to show that the quality risk of Jinjiang's export footwear products can not be ignored.

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< p > to ensure the quality and safety of footwear related export products in Jinjiang, Jinjiang Office of Quanzhou inspection and Quarantine Bureau suggests that enterprises, especially leather industry, should accelerate the research of leather processing technology such as chrome free tanning, low chrome tanning, chrome tanning and tanning, so as to provide qualified raw materials for exporting footwear to Europe, and ensure normal trade in exported products.

In addition, relevant trade associations and enterprises should strengthen standardization research, promote market integration through standards integration at home and abroad, strengthen the collection and study of global footwear technical regulations and standard information, and formulate a voluntary local or footwear industry alliance standard applicable to the whole world, so as to provide information and standard support for pioneering enterprises to explore the international market.

At the same time, relevant departments and trade associations should strengthen cooperation and establish information exchange and sharing mechanism, such as dynamic foreign trade technical measures, overseas notification and evacuation, domestic supervision and spot check results, improve quality risk information sources channels, and jointly carry out key quality risk monitoring and evaluation work, timely release early warning information, and guide enterprises to effectively avoid quality risks.

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