Frequency of children's wear quality events

Reporter Zhang Yan's correspondent Pan Mingtu Zhuang Hao Recently, the European Commission issued a warning that the children's clothing sold on the EU market with a string or a belt has some potential safety hazards. The US Consumer Product Safety Commission puts several types of necks and other drawstrings through it. Children's clothing tops are listed as major risk products.

Children's clothing is an important export commodity in our city. The reporter learned from the Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Bureau that in 2010 Ningbo had a total of 14,268 batches of export infant clothing and children's clothing, which amounted to US$244 million, an increase of 24.11% and 40.23% respectively year-on-year. With the improvement of the safety requirements for children's wear in developed countries such as Europe and the United States, the quality of children's clothing exported from the city frequently appears, giving enterprises a wake-up call.

Sampling failure rate as high as 47%

Not long ago, a group of more than 4,000 cotton jodhpurs exported to Spain by a company in the city were found to be unqualified products by the Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Bureau due to the presence of 5mm to 12mm openings. The reason is: if children Inserting a finger inadvertently into this opening can easily be wrapped and it is difficult to pull out, thereby hindering the blood circulation of the fingertip and causing the child's finger to become necrotic. The inspector immediately explained the seriousness of the problem to the company, and at the same time required the company to immediately initiate rectification and help the company propose a new design proposal.

Since last year, the Ningbo Inspection and Quarantine Bureau has conducted spot checks on baby knitted garments and children's apparel products exported from the Ningbo area. It has collected 200 batches of samples and detected a total of 94 unqualified samples, with a failure rate of 47%. More than 60% of unqualified products involve more serious quality problems in the case of foreign notification recalls, including physical and chemical safety issues such as ropes, small parts, and phthalates, formaldehyde, and color fastness. In addition, the safety and health projects failed, fiber components are not consistent, poor sewing, poor finishing, inconsistent specifications are also the main problems of children's wear in Ningbo.

Relevant companies to cope with lack of strength Although foreign technical barriers and safety requirements continue to increase, but related enterprises in our city responded to fatigue. In Europe and the United States and other markets, children's wear is generally regulated as “children’s products”. The technical and regulatory standards for related products are constantly emerging, and the general conditions of the “man, equipment, and management” of the spinning and clothing industry are insufficient, which objectively causes the company to cope with regulations and regulations. According to the survey of Ningbo, the main textile production area in Zhangzhou, nearly 60% of the enterprises have not designed and qualified for the conformity assessment. Only 35% of the enterprises have the ability to carry out tests and other self-control, and most of them can only perform color fastness and shrink. The initial control of simple items such as rates.

In addition, product design is dominated by customers, production companies based on samples or drawings for production, lack of understanding of the importing countries, technical regulations and standards, but also likely to cause frequent problems in the quality of export clothing.

Timely adjustment of regulatory measures In response to the new requirements of the developed countries, how can Ningbo companies defend the export children's wear market that is not easy to occupy and further consolidate development? Professionals believe that relevant departments should first strengthen the supervision of children’s clothing exports, and classify them as “children’s articles” such as toys, not just “apparel” categories, and adjust regulatory measures in a timely manner according to the situation at home and abroad. Secondly, we must introduce a risk management mechanism, gradually explore the establishment of a regulatory mechanism similar to toys and other products, implement a permit or audit system for children's clothing export enterprises, ensure that the relevant companies have the necessary process control capabilities for reviewing and developing the contract design, and guide enterprises to establish key technologies. Accessories management system. Once again, we must increase the promotion and implementation of standards, and deepen research and development of related standards in children's physical and chemical safety performance.