The national standard for children's textiles will be implemented

China's first mandatory national standard GB 31701-2015 “Safety Technical Specification for Infant and Children's and Children's Textile Products” for infants and children's and children's textile products (children's wear) will be formally implemented on June 1, 2016.

According to Li Jing, spokesperson of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and director of the Information Office, the standard comprehensively regulates the safety performance of children's clothing and will help guide manufacturers to improve the safety and quality of children's clothing and protect the health and safety of infants and children.

Security requirements are fully upgraded Given the special characteristics of infants and children, the standard further improves the safety requirements for infants and children's textile products on the basis of the original textile safety standards, and the safety requirements are fully upgraded.

Chemical safety adds 6 kinds of plasticizers and limited amounts of lead and cadmium. Requirements for mechanical safety. Requirements for infants and children under 7 years of age. No headgear or neckline is allowed to have any string. Textile accessories require attachments to have certain tensile strength. , And there should be no sharp tip and edge In addition, the standard also increases the combustion performance requirements.

According to age divided into two categories of applicable age <36 months: infant textile products 3 years old ~ 14 years old: children's textile products safety technology category is divided into A, B, C three categories according to different safety requirements, the standard will also children's clothing safety technology The categories are divided into three categories: A, B, and C. Class A is the best, Class B is the second, and Class C is the basic requirement.

It is required that textile products for infants and young children should meet Class A requirements. Children's textile products that directly contact the skin should meet at least Category B requirements. Children's textile products that are not in direct contact with the skin should meet at least Category C requirements.

The standard also requires that children's clothing be marked on the instructions for use, and infant and child textile products should be supplemented with “baby and infant supplies”. In the future, when consumers purchase children's clothes, they can use the safety category indicated on the instructions as a reference.

The implementation of the transition period in two years as an important mandatory national standard, the implementation of the standard will have a major impact on the entire infant and children's textile and clothing market, Dai Hong said that in order to ensure the smooth transition of the market, the standard set for two years Implement the transition period.

The transition period will be implemented from June 1, 2016 to May 31, 2018. During the transitional period, products that were produced before June 1, 2016 and meet the requirements of the relevant standards are allowed to continue to be sold in the market, and testing organizations perform testing according to the standards implemented by the company. From June 1, 2018, all related products on the market must meet the requirements of this standard.

Dai Hong, director of the Industrial Standards Division of the National Standards Committee, said that the reason for setting the transition period is that the standard has greatly increased the requirements for baby textile products. Enterprises need a certain amount of time to complete technological transformation and upgrading. At the same time, textile products are products for off-season production, and the production and sales cycle are long. It takes a certain amount of time to digest the inventory.