Children's wear safety standards in Europe and the United States increasingly strict guidelines for the new national standard

On August 1st, three national standards for children's wear that focused on the safety performance of small clothing components were formally implemented. They were "Safety requirements for children's clothing ropes and drawstrings," "Safety specifications for children's tops and drawstrings," and "Safety-improved children." Clothing Design and Production Implementation Code.

The newly introduced series of safety standards for children's clothing is based on the principle and basis of avoiding child dangerous accidents. It specifies the safety specifications for children's uppers and drawstrings, the safety requirements for the use of ropes and drawstrings on children's clothing, and the materials, designs, and production of children's clothing. Implementation specifications. The introduction of this series of standards will play a positive role in regulating and promoting the children's wear market in China.

In recent years, Europe and the United States have adopted increasingly stringent safety standards for imported children’s clothing, and China’s children’s clothing exports are facing greater challenges. Domestic children's clothing manufacturing enterprises lack guidance on relevant standards for children's clothing safety performance. They only know how to produce according to customer's requirements. They lack sufficient identification ability for whether the design scheme meets standards and regulations, resulting in "design" consistent with "production" but delinking from regulations. "The phenomenon has led to frequent notification of recalls. According to statistics, in the first three quarters of 2009, China’s apparel products were notified by the European Union with 153 cases, a year-on-year increase of 6.29 times. From January to April of this year, the United States recalled a total of 27 textile and apparel products, a year-on-year increase of 69%. Among them, the number of Chinese-made textile recalls was 22, accounting for 81.5% of the total, an increase of 83.3% over the same period of last year. In the same period, the EU recalled a total of 182 textile and apparel products, an increase of 146% year-on-year, of which 93 were Chinese textile and apparel products. The year-on-year increase of 79%. Most of the above recalled products are still children's clothing, and the main reason for recall is still suffocation, suffocation and injury hazards. Among these, the spearhead pointed to problems such as the design of the string and the irrational design of small parts. The timely implementation of the three new national standards will play a good guiding role for children's clothing manufacturers.

The three new national standards have stringent requirements for children's clothing, ropes, and small parts. Some aspects are even more stringent than European and American regulations. This means that there is no "standard deviation" between China and Europe and the United States in the safety of children's clothing ropes and drawstrings. In view of this, the inspection and quarantine departments reminded relevant companies to seriously study the three new national standards, and strictly control the quality and safety of children's clothing in accordance with the standards, while doing the following: First, try to improve the terms of the contract. Samples sent by foreign customers should have design defects or The fabrics specified by the customer do not meet the three national standards. The design department should find out that the problem should be communicated with foreign customers, modify the samples, or reselect the opposite materials. Second, when purchasing raw materials, children's clothing enterprises should pay attention to checking suppliers' certificates of supply of raw and auxiliary materials. Before entering the factory, raw and auxiliary materials must also be sampled and tested. Strict controls and qualified products can be put into production before use to ensure that the materials used meet the requirements of the importing country. Safety requirements eliminate quality risks before production. Third, carefully analyze the quality defects of the recalled garments, and assess and self-check the risks in the whole production process.

The European Union reminds consumers to pay attention to the risk of children's clothing ropes. In recent days, the EU has discovered that children's clothing with a string and a drawstring has certain risks in the process of market supervision, especially when examining children's clothing. Children may be caught in the wear process. Dangerous, so remind consumers to be vigilant when buying such clothing.

It is learnt that the EU's market surveillance agency inspected more than 16,000 related garments in 11 member states between 2008 and 2010, and found that 1/10 failed to meet the EU safety standards, of which baby and children's clothing accounted for about 70%.

European market watchdogs often receive notifications that children's clothing strings, straps have been tangled with bicycles, doors, doors, or playground equipment, resulting in serious injury or death. Statistics on traffic accidents also show that such accidents can be categorized into two categories according to their age: 1. Young children die of suffocation as a result of a string trapping around their neck. 2. Slightly larger children's waists or lower straps and straps are stuck on moving vehicles, such as bus doors, ski lifts, and bicycles, and are dragged or injured or killed as a result of running vehicles.

For this reason, the European Union requires manufacturers, distributors, importers and retailers to ensure that the cords and harnesses of children's clothing they operate comply with the EN 14682:2007 European Standard or provide proof of relevant safety levels. In such related inspections, China’s export products have also been notified and returned for several times. Throughout 2009, the United States, the European Union and Canada issued a total of 1404 unqualified notifications, involving the largest number of infants and young children including toys, children's clothing, and cribs. The main problem with the above products is that there is a risk of strangulation or suffocation in children's clothing, which violates the relevant requirements of the European Union and the United States.

The inspection and quarantine department reminds relevant companies to do the following: First, to learn more about the requirements of European and American standards for safety items on children's clothing, and strictly follow the EN14682:2007 European standard to organize production or provide relevant certifications. Effectively improve the management level of export children's clothing production; Second, pay attention to avoid risks when signing foreign trade contracts with customers, do not accept defective designs, and avoid return shipping claims; third, companies should strengthen the review of safety design for product design and development, For the security inspection of the product, the qualified enterprise shall, based on its own product characteristics and export requirements, build a self-built or built laboratory to conduct testing on the relevant safety items of the clothing, enhance the self-inspection and control capability of the enterprise, and effectively avoid the risk.

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