The new national standard next month to implement children's clothing does not increase prices

The quality and safety of children's clothing, especially infants and young children's clothing, have drawn the attention of many parents in recent years. From August 1 this year, the new version of the "National Basic Safety Technical Specification for Textile Products" will be fully implemented. The new national standard will require higher quality textile products for infants and young children. Yesterday, the reporter visited a number of children's clothing counters and wholesale markets in the city and found that many infants and young children's clothing has gradually begun to implement new standards, but there are also some of the phenomenon that the tag is not standardized, or even no tag.

The new standard has the greatest impact on infants and young children's clothing. Song Xianyang, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of Textiles and Garments, introduced that this time the mandatory “National Safety Technical Code for Textile Products” has the greatest impact on infant textile products. In the old standard, infant and child textile products were defined as “textile products worn or used by infants and young children aged 24 months or less.” In the new national standard, “infants and young children aged 36 months or less were worn or used. "The textile products", which means that the expansion of the age range of infants and young children's textile products, also means that children's clothing companies need to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to adjust the product control of children aged 2 to 3 years.

The indicators specified in the standard include formaldehyde content, pH, odor, etc. The garment is tested to meet the Class A standard value. The product can be used by infants and young children; the garment can be worn personally when it is tested to meet the Class B standard value; and the garment can be worn when it is tested to meet the Class C standard value. Song Xianyang said that in the three grades A, B, and C, the A grade is the most stringent. For example, the content of formaldehyde, infant textile products must be equal to or less than 20 mg/kg; and grade B is equal to or less than 75 mg/kg. From August 1, 2012, textile products that do not meet the new standards are prohibited from production, sales, and imports. This means that 2 to 3 year-old children's clothing previously produced in accordance with the old national standard must be taken off the shelf if it cannot be sold before August 1st.

Investigation of unqualified children's clothing in the wholesale market. Yesterday, the reporter visited the baby counters of large shopping malls such as Jiefangbei and Guanyinqiao in our city. It was found that most garments, especially those recently produced, have adopted new standards, setting 1 to 3 years old as infants. Children's clothing, and marked on the tag in detail that the clothing has been tested to meet the A-class standard value. A clerk told reporters that the new textile national standard had to be implemented last year, but considering the specificity of textile products, the implementation time was postponed for a year as a buffer period. "Manufacturers have started to produce children's clothes according to the new standard. Now a small amount of children's clothes that are still on sale and are produced according to old standards are in stock, and they will be put off after the official implementation."

However, in the Chaotianmen Wholesale Market and some small shops, the situation is quite different. Many children's clothes do not have any hangtags. Even if they have, they only indicate the ingredients and do not indicate the number of garments that have passed the test. For the new GB store, said "I have not heard of it, anyway, children under the age of 12 are called children's clothes, regardless of any infant or other, the same material, is divided into size, are first-class products, you can rest assured to buy."

Analyze the increase in children's clothing costs but temporarily do not increase the price Zhang Dai, general manager of Chongqing Daxing Children's Products Co., the biggest children's wear enterprise in the western region, told reporters that after the implementation of the new national standard, the children's wear production enterprises will increase the cost of raw materials. At the same time, inspection items have also been added, and inspection fees have also increased. According to rough statistics, the production cost of textile and garment enterprises will increase by 1% to 5%, among which the cost of children's clothing enterprises will increase the most. Chen Shangfu, secretary general of the Chongqing Garment Industry Association, said that the new national standard imposes specific restrictions on the safety and physical properties of textiles such as formaldehyde content, PH value, color fastness, etc., and stipulates that there must be no odor in the product and the use of decomposable aromatic amine dyes. . Therefore, it means that companies need to spend more financial and material resources on raw material control.

Will increased production costs be passed on to consumers? Zhang Hao said that at present the apparel industry is in a sluggish market, and manufacturers are using discounts in exchange for sales. Therefore, prices will not rise at this stage.

Consumption Reminds More Harmful Control of Toxic and Harmful Substances Jiang Aimin, Director of the Consumer Products Industry Division of the Economic and Information Commission of the city introduced that for consumers, they should pay attention to the tag information and see if there are any harmful substances that do not conform to the new regulations. There is also the need to pay attention to the new national standard, for the first time will be carcinogenic harmful aromatic amine 4-aminoazobenzene on the list of prohibited to be checked out. He also introduced that new national textile standards are mandatory, and regular manufacturers will produce according to this national standard, otherwise the products will be banned from being listed and sold. It is best for the public to choose the clothing produced by regular manufacturers, especially infants and children's clothing, so that health and safety can be guaranteed.