Safe upgrade of children's clothing "position" is just around the corner

Regarding the safety of children's clothing, how much effort a brand enterprise can make cannot be overemphasized. Today, with the further standardization of national policies and the promotion of rational consumer perceptions, a safe children's wear market may be just around the corner.

National inspections have become increasingly strict. Before the “6/11” Children’s Day this year, the Beijing Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce based on complaints and reports on children’s products in recent years, organized the development of children’s clothing, children’s shoes, children’s toys, children’s toothbrushes, and student supplies in the city’s circulation areas. Baby diapers 6 types of children's products sampling test. The results showed that the quality of student supplies for this sampling was good, and no unqualified products were found in the sampling. The overall quality of children's toys, children's toothbrushes and baby diapers was also good, with only one group each failing. Children's clothing and children's shoes did not find unqualified safety performance indicators. The main unqualified problems were the use of performance indicators such as color fastness, fiber content, and logos that did not meet the standards.

The sampled children's clothing was tested according to the relevant national standards. The inspection items mainly included signs, fiber content, color fastness, PH value, formaldehyde, banned azo dyes, and odors. Among them, Shanshan Children's Clothing One Shirt and Disney One Girl's Knitwear Set have detected the color fastness to wet rubbing; the piglet's one item of children's hooded down jacket has three items including cashmere content, fleece content and fluffiness. Unqualified; dave&bella, a well-known children's wear brand popular with Taobao.com, had a suit that was found to have failed saliva color fastness, dry rub fastness, and wet rub fastness.

The sampling of children's footwear products mainly based on QB/T 2880 "children's shoes", QB/T 4331 "children's travel shoes" and related standards for testing. The test items mainly include: identification, sensory (appearance) quality, peel strength, wear resistance of outsole, folding resistance of finished shoes, hardness of outsole, color fastness of lining and inner pad, odor, free or partially hydrolyzable formaldehyde content. , Cr (VI) - hexavalent chromium in leather, content of carcinogenic aromatic amine dyes, heavy metals and other items. A total of 16 unqualified products produced by a number of manufacturing companies, including Yangzhou Youka Children's Products Co., Ltd., were found to be detected. The main unqualified problems were the items of logo, sensory quality, folding endurance and abrasion resistance. Among them, Adidas Sports (China) Co., Ltd. distributed children's adidas sports shoes to the list because of the unsuccessful endurance performance of shoes.

It is understood that starting from August 1, 2012, GB18401-2010 "National Basic Safety Technical Specification for Textile Products" issued by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ) and the Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China will be implemented. This standard divides children's clothing products into A and B. Category C and Category C specifically indicate that these three categories are infant textile products, textile products that are in direct contact with the skin, and textile products that are not in direct contact with the skin. Different types of children's clothing, in the formaldehyde content, PH value, color fastness and other aspects of the requirements are also different, in which all safety technical indicators of Class A products are stricter than the B and C categories.

Experts explained that the standard requires that infants and young children's clothing must meet Class A standards, and clothing worn must meet Class B standards, while Class C products can be worn without touching the skin. Compared to the 2003 version of the old standard, the new standard differs in that the range of ages covered by infants and young children's textiles has expanded from infants and toddlers aged 0 to 24 months to infants and toddlers within 36 months of age. Note that “products that are generally suitable for infants and children under 100 cm in height and below can be used as infant textile products.” According to this standard, in the category of safety technology, children's clothing within 3 years of age must meet Class A standards and be On the tag, the words "Infant & Baby Articles, GB18401-2010, Class A" are marked.

International brands are not only domestic brands. International brands want to share a share in the Chinese children's wear market. They also need to treat their security issues with great sincerity, or they will only wait for the brand to return home.

The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine convened a routine press conference recently, saying that from January to May 2015, the national entry-exit inspection and quarantine agencies detected a total of 5,778 batches of unqualified imported children's products, an increase of 103% year-on-year, involving a value of 123.8 million yuan. USD (about 768 million yuan ***). However, among them, unqualified items accounted for relatively large unqualified packaging labels, and 134 batches of unqualified quality and quality products fell by 18.7% year-on-year.

The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine carried out statistics on imported children's clothes, toys, diapers for infants and children, foods for children, and child car seats for children. According to the data, 2288 batches of unqualified products were detected in imported infants and children's clothing, including 107 batches of unqualified quality and safety. The main unqualified items were formaldehyde content, pH value, color fastness, and fiber composition and logo inconsistency. The quality of infants and children's garments originating in Bangladesh is the most serious problem, ranking the first place in China's imports of unqualified children's clothing for two consecutive years, followed by children's clothing produced in countries such as India, Vietnam and Indonesia. For children's clothing with unqualified quality and safety, the entry-exit inspection and quarantine agencies have all implemented return shipment or destruction.

Unqualified 96 batches of imported children's toys were detected. The major unqualified items were: the safety of plush toys was unqualified, the stability test of the dolls was unqualified, the average thickness of the plastic bags used for toy packaging was unqualified, and no 3C marks and warning instructions were Qualified and so on. The unqualified children's toys involved are from South Korea, Vietnam, Kyrgyzstan and Hong Kong. There are many famous international brands such as MUJI, LEGO, HENES and MAMMUT.

The number of unqualified 3135 batches of imported infant diapers (mats) was increased by 228.9% year-on-year. The unqualified project mainly fails to meet the requirements for product identification. For the identification of unqualified products, the inspection and quarantine authorities shall supervise the importing enterprises to carry out technical rectification in accordance with Chinese laws and regulations to meet relevant requirements. The AQSIQ spokesman said that in accordance with the relevant provisions of the "Commercial Inspection Law" and its implementation regulations, the inspection and quarantine authorities implemented the destruction, return shipment and technical treatment of children's products with the above-mentioned problems to prevent the unqualified children's products from flowing into the domestic market.

Rational consumption of consumers As the nation's supervision of children's wear brands has gradually increased, consumers have become more aware of and concerned about policy regulations, and consumption habits are being rationalized and objective.

In the process of visiting the mall, reporters found that there are still a lot of loopholes in the logo of some baby clothing brands. Although the new standard requires that children under the age of 3 can only sell “A” garments, many infant clothing labels are marked. It is not clear that "A" is not marked at 100 cm. For example, in a shopping mall, a baby clothing counter on the third floor, sales staff said that the products are imported brands, but some products although with a logo, but does not meet the new standard, only marked "qualified products", "first class products "And so on, there are even infants and young children's garments labeled as "Class B" that carry out safety technology. As for how to choose the size of the garment, the salesperson picked up several pieces according to his experience. One of the denim jackets was obviously pungent. The salesperson said that it would not affect the wearing of the garments. ". For such children's wear, the reporter interviewed consumers: they will not buy it.

The reporter also randomly interviewed several parents who selected children's clothes in the mall. They expressed a general understanding of “baby and infant supplies, GB18401-2010, Class A”. Although they believed that the clothes sold in the regular shopping mall must be qualified products, they were choosing clothing. At the same time, it will read the label to understand the composition, origin, and other information. In addition, in the interview process, the reporter learned from several parents who are concerned about the safety of infants and young children, that they are more careful about the identification of clothing, and they are "first class" or "B" for international children's clothing brands. The product also said that it can not blindly trust, since entering the Chinese market must be based on China's quality inspection standards before they can rest assured that the purchase.

The new policy to stimulate safety upgrades The issue of safety of children's clothing brands is not a matter of overnight. However, in the past two years, the state has been very active and effective in terms of the introduction of policies. In particular, the National Bureau of Standards officially issued the first domestic report specifically targeting The mandatory national standards for infants and children's textile products (children's wear): The "Technical Code for Safety of Textile Products for Infants, Children, and Children" (GB 31701-2015) (hereinafter referred to as "the Code") is about to be implemented. The standard will be formally implemented on June 1, 2016, and there will be a two-year implementation transition period. From June 1, 2018, all relevant products on the market must meet the standard requirements.

According to industry insiders, this new regulation has comprehensively supervised the safety performance of children's clothing, which helps guide manufacturers 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 issuance of the "Code" is conducive to the improvement of children's wear safety and technical standards. It also contributes to the export of children's clothing products, and deals with trade barriers in the export market with stricter standards. In the future, China’s children’s wear market will be fully upgraded with safety as its first element. Only companies that take safety seriously will find a place in the children’s wear market.

Therefore, the security upgrade, children's clothing companies are you ready?