Discussion On Safety Requirements And Current Situation Of Children'S Clothing In China

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However, in our current children's wear market, the product structure is not reasonable.

In the market, children's clothing and children's clothing are mostly in the market. Children's clothing and clothing are few, and the quality of products is uneven.

1 the current standard of children's wear in China

Article 1 of the United Nations Convention on the rights of the child stipulates that children refer to anyone under the age of 18, and the law of the People's Republic of China on the protection of minors is also stipulated to be 0~18 years old, but in related textile products regulations, children are defined as 0~14 years old.

1.1 children's clothing product standards and technical requirements

In China's current textile standard system, there are 5 standards for children's clothing products, which are divided into two categories: woven and knitted.

According to the two aspects of appearance quality and internal quality, these standards assess the quality of products. The basic safety technical requirements of products are implemented by GB18401.

1.2 other standard requirements for children's wear

In December 31, 2008, the China National Standardization Management Committee issued the series of safety standards for children's tops and belts, GB/T22702 - 2008 "Safety specifications for children's tops and belts", GB/T22704 2008 "implementation standards for children's clothing design and production to improve mechanical safety" and GB/T22705 2008 "safety requirements for ropes and belts for children's wear", respectively, adopting the American Standard of materials and Testing Association ASTMF1816 2004 - "safety requirements for children's upper garment and belt", the British standard BS7909 "implementation specification for improving children's clothing design and production safety" and "European standard EN14682:2007" safety requirements for children's wear ropes and belts.

This series of standards focus on the safety performance of children's small parts, to avoid children's dangerous accidents as the main principles and basis, stipulate the safety specifications of children's tops, the safety requirements for using children's ropes and straps, the implementation specifications of children's clothing materials, design and production, and have been formally implemented since August 1, 2009.

2 European and American requirements on children's clothing safety performance

2.1 safety requirements for straps

The safety regulations for children's jackets issued by the United States put forward specific requirements for children's costumes.

In July 2011, the Consumer Safety Commission (CPSC) promulgated the new safety regulations for children's coat coats.

1) children's coats with sizes from 2T to 12 are not allowed to pull strings at neck and hooks.

2) children's coat with sizes from 2T to 16 can not be pulled over 7.5cm at the waist and hem.

3) the ends of the rope at the waist and hem must not be buckled, knots or other accessories.

CPSC's federal government cooperation agency, the US Customs and Border Protection Agency, has the right to refuse potentially dangerous rope jackets for children to enter the United States.

The European Union's EN14682 standard also specifies the general requirements for the belts and ropes of children under 14 years of age.

It is specifically stipulated that no bands or ropes are allowed for children's clothing in the head and neck area of 0~7 years old children, and the adjustable ends, shoulder straps, rope ornaments, etc. can not have a free end over 7.5cm.

The Australian Competition and consumer committee (ACCC) stipulates that the production and sale of children's clothing with ropes must conform to the American ASTMF1816 - 2004 "safety requirements for children's upper garments and belts" and the EU directive EN14682:2007 "safety requirements for children's wear ropes and belts".

2.2 combustion performance requirements

The United States adopted the Flammable Fabrics Act (FFA) as early as l953, stipulates that all textile and apparel sales to the United States market must meet its prescribed requirements for flame retardancy. Among them, two sub regulations 16CFRl615 "flammability standard for children's pajamas (0 to 6X)" and 16CFRl616 "flammability standard for children's pajamas (7 ~ L4)", respectively, specify the testing methods and technical requirements for children's clothing combustion performance.

Britain has flammable labeling requirements for textiles and clothing, including children's pajamas and all baby garments.

2.3 limit requirements for toxic and harmful substances

The testing items of harmful chemical substances in textile and clothing in the United States include: banned azo fuel, formaldehyde, heavy metal content, pentachlorophenol (PCP), four chlorophenol (TeCP), nickel release and so on.

CPSC's latest lead content requirement for children's products: since August 14, 2011, the lead content of children's products sold in the US market must meet the 100ppm limit.

The EU eco textile standard Oeko-TexStandard100 specifies the requirements for various toxic and hazardous substances in textiles. EU regulations such as 94/27/EC, EN1811 and EN12472 also limit the nickel and its compounds in some ornaments and decorative belts, and require direct or long-term contact with metal products. The amount of nickel released is less than 0.5 g/cm2.

3 Analysis of safety performance of children's wear standard in China

3.1 safety performance of children's clothing

Children's clothing occupies a pivotal position in the export of Chinese textile and clothing. With the continuous expansion of children's clothing exports in Europe and the United States, the safety standards set by children in Europe and America are increasingly strict, and children's clothing is strictly supervised as "children's articles".

According to statistics, as of September 2010, China's children's clothing was recalled by the European Union RAPEX 180, accounting for 78% of the total number of textile and clothing products in China. In the United States, since 2009, more than 524 thousand Chinese made children's coats have been recalled by the US CPSC.

The main reasons for the notification and return of these children's clothes are: there is risk of suffocation (unreasonable design of rope and small parts, excessive length of rope for children's tops and caps), chemical hazards (two methyl fumarate, formaldehyde, prohibited use of azo dyes, etc.), and [2].

These risk factors (except chemical hazards) have only been paid attention to in recent years in China's children's clothing market.

In order to ensure the safety of children's clothing, children's clothing accessories including buttons, buttons, zippers, decorations and other related safety performance must be tested.

3.2 main problems existing in the current standards

In China's children's clothing product standards, only FZ/T81014 - 2008 "infant clothing" standard for children has proposed extractable heavy metal content, rope belt, button adhesion and other safety requirements, while FZ/T73025 - 2006 "infant knitted dress" has only pull band and button sewing force requirements, but no tape specifications and belt safety requirements. Other standard examination project design is almost the same as the requirements of conventional clothing products.

GB/T22702, GB/T22704 and GB/T22705 have been implemented for nearly two years, but due to the recommended standards, no mandatory requirements, and lack of in-depth publicity, many children's clothing manufacturers have not yet thoroughly understood, and the execution is not optimistic.

At the same time, the supervision and spot checks of children's clothing products are usually based on GB18401 and product standards, and seldom involve the safety performance of accessories such as drawstring and decoration. To a certain extent, it also delays the implementation of GB/T22702 standards.

To sum up, in China's textile and apparel industry, the applicable standards for infant products are not comprehensive enough to take into account safety requirements such as rope and so on. However, the clothing for children and children has not been taken into consideration, which is far from the requirements of European and American countries, which inevitably leads to the recall of children's clothing.

In addition, children's clothing products in China do not involve combustion performance requirements.

4 discussion and suggestion

4.1, establish a uniform standard system for children's wear safety performance.

The establishment of a unified standard system for children's wear safety and strict implementation, timely tracking the international market trends, is the necessary means to improve the quality of children's clothing and solve the plight of children's clothing exports.

It is suggested that a unified standard system should be established as soon as possible on the basis of the relevant standards for children's clothing, and the requirements of GB/T22702, GB/T22705 and GB/T22704 of the safety standards for children's tops and belts will be included in the product standards with mandatory clauses. The contents of extractable heavy metals and the content of o-benzoic acid two carboxylate can be increased and the quality of children's garments can be improved comprehensively, and the quality requirements of children's garments in Europe and the United States should be integrated.

4.2, strengthen the supervision of children's clothing quality

To improve the quality of children's clothing products, it is not enough to rely solely on the efforts of children's clothing enterprises. Only a unified standard without supervision is not enough. Only children's clothing manufacturers and government regulatory departments cooperate with each other to promote the sustainable development of children's wear industry.

The government departments should further improve the quality management system, strengthen the supervision of children's clothing production enterprises, increase the propaganda of the safety requirements of children's clothing products, and timely adjust the supervision measures for children's clothing products according to the international market situation, strengthen the supervision and inspection of children's clothing quality in the circulation field, and effectively implement the requirements of "ecology", "health" and "safety" of children's clothing products, and improve the quality of children's clothing products.