Quality Requirements For Children'S Clothing Accessories In Export Market Are Becoming Stricter.

In recent years, the international market is increasingly concerned about the chemical safety problems in the production of children's clothing, especially the strict control of heavy metal content in children's clothing, and the standards for the export of children's clothing accessories are also increasingly stringent.

Children's heavy metal absorption rate is high, and detoxification and detoxification function is poor, so it is very vulnerable to heavy metals such as lead.

Although the US CPSC has recently decided to remove the lead test requirements for almost all textiles, the lead test is still needed for buttons, buttons, zippers, decorations and fasteners. The new regulations in foreign markets such as Europe and the United States will focus on buttons, metal ornaments, zippers and printing paint.

It can be seen that the quality requirements of garment accessories are very strict in the international market.

There is an upward trend in the recall and return of foreign children because of the excessive content of compounds in children's clothing.

At present, clothing export enterprises still focus on the control of the main raw materials and key processes, often ignoring the quality of the smaller proportion of excipients.

Trade frictions caused by chemical safety of garment accessories occur frequently, such as the excessive content of heavy metals in metal parts such as banned azo dyes, zippers and buttons.

To avoid such problems, the inspection and quarantine department recommends that enterprises do the following tasks:

The pH value pH of the fabric is an indicator of the fabric's acidity and alkalinity, because the skin of the human body is weakly acidic. If the difference between the pH value of the fabric and the skin of the human body is too large, it will stimulate the skin. The pH value of the product that is directly exposed to the skin is in the range of 4.0~7.5. The pH value of the product that is not directly touching the skin is in the range of 4.0~9.0, but the requirements for the children's clothing are more stringent, less than 4 of the fabric is acidic, and the over acidic clothing is easy to damage during storage, and the fabric is more alkaline than that of 7.5 (9).

The pH value of the mandatory national standard of national textile product basic safety technical specification is mandatory index, which stipulates the allowable degree of pH value. Because some enterprises only pay attention to production, do not grasp the standard content, do not know that the pH value index is also checked in the standard, some enterprises do not know what the pH value index is to assess. What is known is the content of the examination component, formaldehyde content, color fastness and sewing quality.

The direct reason for the unqualified pH value is that a large number of alkaline substances are used in the dyeing and finishing process of the fabric production enterprises, and no reasonable neutralization treatment process is adopted. The pH value exceeds the standard. Therefore, garment manufacturers should promptly inspect the purchased fabrics and control the quality of the products.

Formaldehyde content exceeds the standard, mostly for infants and young children. According to the standard, the formaldehyde content of infants and young children is less than 20 mg / kg. Formaldehyde content is an indicator of whether the product is harmful to children. In this sense, as long as the formaldehyde content of products is not qualified, it means the existence of danger. We should not take it lightly.

Color fastness (color fastness to moisture, fastness to light, colour fastness to perspiration, colour fastness to saliva).

Color fastness is mainly due to the fastness of dyes attached to fibers, especially water, friction, sweat stains and saliva. Otherwise, during the wearing process, the dye will fall off and pfer to the skin, which will harm the human body or stain the light colored clothes, which will affect the consumers' health and beauty.

The problem of color fastness is more prominent. The reason is that the enterprises failed to inspect the fabrics before they were put into production. The raw materials purchased were useless according to the content requirements of children's wear standards. Especially the color fastness of dark colored fabrics was the most serious problem, and some products only reached 1~2 grade, especially infants and young children, because infants often bite their clothes and other objects in their mouths, causing children to suck their staining residues into their mouths and be hurt.

Although color fastness is not a harmful factor, the mandatory standards and product standards have clear requirements for color fastness, and the corresponding color fastness grades are formulated according to the age and quality level of children.

This conventional index of color fastness is a quality problem that has been plagued by our textile products for many years. Because the standards of clothing products and fabric products have not been unified in the index of color fastness, such as the color fastness of wet fastness of fabric products is lower than the color fastness of clothing product standards, that is to say, the fabric is qualified, making garments is not necessarily qualified, and has not been unified at the source of standards.

Therefore, enterprises are required to inspect the indicators according to the product standards after selecting fabrics, and can be put into production after reaching the standard of fabrics.