The State Has Intensified Efforts To Standardize Children's Wear Market And Promote The Safety Upgrade Of Children's Wear.

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It cannot be too hard for an enterprise to put in much effort.

Nowadays, with the further regulation of national policies and the rational concept of consumers, a safe children's wear market may be around the corner.

Before this year's "June 1" children's day, Beijing city commerce and Industry Bureau organized and carried out children in circulation area in accordance with the complaints and reports of children's products in recent years.

Children's shoes, children's toys, children's toothbrushes, student supplies, baby diapers 6 kinds of children's products random inspection.

The results showed that the quality of sampling products was good, and no substandard products were found in the sampling.

The overall quality of children's toys, children's toothbrushes and baby diapers is also good, with only one group being unqualified.

Children's clothing and children's shoes were not found to be unqualified for safety performance indicators. The main unqualified problems were color fastness, fiber content and identification.

The sampling of children's clothing is based on the relevant national standards. The testing items mainly include identification, fiber content, color fastness, pH value, formaldehyde, banned azo dyes, odor and so on.

Among them, a shirt and a shirt.

A girl's knitted suit was found to be unqualified for color fastness to damp and rubbing. 3 items of children's cashmere clothing, including cashmere content, fluffy content and fluffiness, were not eligible; a famous brand of children's clothing was popular in Taobao.

A suit was tested for 3 color fastness to saliva, color fastness to dry rubbing and colour fastness to wet rubbing.

The sampling of children's footwear products is mainly based on QB/T 2880 "children's leather shoes", QB/T 4331 "children's travel shoes" and related standards for testing.

The testing items mainly include identification, sensory (appearance) quality, peel strength, wear resistance of the outer bottom, folding resistance of the shoes, hardness of the outsole, color fastness to rubbing and internal friction, smell of formaldehyde, free or partially hydrolyzed formaldehyde, Cr (VI) - six valence chromium, dyestuff, heavy metal and other heavy metals.

Detection found that the nominal "Yangzhou YOKA children's products Co., Ltd." and other production enterprises produced 16 kinds of substandard goods.

The main unqualified problems are identification, sensory quality, folding resistance and wear resistance.

Sports Adidas shoes, which are distributed by sports (China) Limited, are also on the list due to their unfolding resistance.

It is understood that since August 1, 2012, GB18401-2010, the basic technical specification for national textile products issued by the AQSIQ and the National Standardization Management Committee, has been put into effect. The standard will classify children's clothing products into A, B and C categories, specifying these three kinds of textile products, namely, infant textile products, direct contact with the skin, and textile products that do not directly contact the skin.

The requirements for formaldehyde content, pH value and color fastness of different categories of children's clothing are also different. Among them, all safety and technical indexes of class a products are strictly B and C.

Experts explained that the standard required infant clothing must reach class a standards, clothing must be up to class B standards, while C products can be worn without touching the skin.

Compared with the old version of the 2003 edition, the difference between the new standard is that the range of age covered by infant textiles has been expanded, and infants ranging from 0 to 24 months old have been expanded to infants within 36 months, and note that "the products that are generally suitable for infants and young children under 100 cm and below can be used as infant textile products."

According to this standard, in the category of safety technology, children's clothing under the age of 3 must reach class a standards, and the words "infant products, GB18401-2010, a a" should be marked on the tag.

Not only domestic brands, but also international brands want to get a share in the Chinese children's clothing market. They also need to pay great sincerity to deal with safety problems, otherwise they will have to go back to their homes to wait for the brand.

AQSIQ held a regular news conference recently, said that in January 2015 ~5 months, the national entry exit inspection and quarantine agency detected 5778 batches of imported children's products which failed to import, an increase of 103% over the same period, involving a value of 123 million 800 thousand yuan (about 768 million yuan).

However, among the unqualified items, the packaging labels were not qualified, and the quality and safety were not qualified. There were 134 batches, which dropped by 18.7% compared to the same period.

AQSIQ has made statistics on imported children's clothing, toys, baby diapers, children's food, children's car safety seats and other children's articles.

Data show that imported infants and children's clothing detected 2288 substandard products, of which 107 were not qualified for quality and safety. The main unqualified items were formaldehyde content, pH value, color fastness, fiber composition and identification.

The quality problem of infants and children clothing in Bangladesh is the most serious. In two consecutive years, the number of imported children's clothes was the highest in China, followed by children's clothing produced in India, Vietnam, Indonesia and other countries or regions.

For children's clothing with unqualified quality and safety, all the entry exit inspection and quarantine institutions have been implemented to return or destroy them.

There are 96 unqualified children imported toys. The main unqualified items are: the mechanical safety of plush toys is not qualified, the doll's stability test is not qualified, the average thickness of plastic bags used for toy packaging is not qualified, no 3C logo and warning instructions are not qualified.

The unqualified children's toys are from South Korea, Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan and Hongkong.

(MUJI), Lego (LEGO), Henny's Poetry (HENES), MAMMUT (mammoth) and other international famous brands.

Imported infant diapers (pads) were found to be unqualified 3135 batches, an increase of 228.9% over the same period.

The unqualified items are mainly product identities which do not meet the requirements. For the unqualified products, the inspection and quarantine organs shall supervise the import enterprises to carry out technical rectification according to the requirements of China's laws and regulations, so as to meet relevant requirements.

A spokesman for the AQSIQ said that in view of the above problems, the inspection and quarantine institutions carried out destruction, withdrawal and technical treatment in accordance with the relevant provisions of the commodity inspection law and its implementation regulations, and strictly prevented the influx of unqualified children's articles into the domestic market.

With the gradual increase in the supervision of children's clothing brands, consumers are increasingly aware of and concerned about the policy requirements, and consumption habits are rationalized and objective.

Reporters in the shopping mall during the visit found that there are still some loopholes in the standardization of some baby clothing brands. Although the new standard stipulates that children under 3 years of age can be sold as "a", many labels for infants and young children are not clear, and below 100 centimeters are not marked "category a".

For example, in a shopping mall, 3 children's clothing counters, the salesmen said that the products were all imported brands. However, although some products had the logo, they did not conform to the new standard. They only labeled "qualified products" and "first-class goods", and even marked the implementation of safety technology marked "B" infant clothing.

As for how to choose the size of clothing, salesmen pick up a few pieces according to their experience. One of the jeans is obviously pungent and odour, and the salesperson says, "it doesn't matter if you wear clothes, it's better to soak for a while."

For such children's clothing, reporters interviewed consumers said: will not buy it.

The reporter also interviewed several parents who chose children's clothing in the shopping mall. They expressed a general understanding of "baby products, GB18401-2010 and class a". Although they thought that the clothes sold in the regular shopping malls must be qualified products, they would still read the labels and understand the ingredients, producing areas and other information when choosing clothes.

In addition, during the interview, the reporter learned from several parents who were more concerned about the safety of infant products that they were still more careful about the identification of clothing labels. For International Children's clothing brands, "first-class products" or "B" products also indicated that they could not blindly believe in their duties. Since entering the Chinese market, they must be assured of buying according to the quality inspection standards of our country.

To solve the safety problem of children's clothing brand is not an overnight event, but in the past two years, the state has been very active in its policies, especially the first mandatory national standard specifically designed for infants and children's textile products (children's clothing) issued by the National Standard Committee: "GB 31701-2015" for infants and children's textile products (hereinafter referred to as the "specification") is about to be implemented.

The standard will be formally implemented in June 1, 2016, and there will be a pitional period of two years, that is, from June 1, 2018 onwards, all relevant products in the market must meet the standard requirements.

According to the insiders, the new regulation has a comprehensive supervision over the safety performance of children's clothing, which helps to guide the production enterprises to improve the safety and quality of children's clothing and protect the health and safety of infants and children.

At the same time, the release of the specification is conducive to the improvement of children's wear safety standards, and also to the export of children's clothing products, and to deal with trade barriers in the export market with stricter standards.

In the future, the Chinese children's wear market will be upgraded with safety as the first element. Only those who take seriously the safety problem will find a place in the children's wear market.

So, safety upgrade, are you ready for children's clothing business?