4 Kinds Of Clothing Dyes Are Found In Guangdong, Which Can Be Decomposed And Carcinogenic Aromatic Amines Are Unqualified

According to the website of Guangdong Provincial Market Supervision Bureau, the Guangdong provincial market supervision and Administration Bureau has issued the notice on the quality supervision and random inspection of adult clothing products in Guangdong Province in 2019. According to the circular, 681 products produced by 478 enterprises were found to be substandard. Unqualified items mainly include "fiber content", "formaldehyde content", "decomposable carcinogenic aromatic amine dyes", etc.

Guangdong Provincial Market Supervision Bureau has carried out the quality supervision and random inspection of adult clothing products. The sampling tasks are undertaken by Guangdong product quality supervision and Inspection Institute, Guangzhou inspection and testing certification Group Co., Ltd., Huizhou quality measurement supervision and Testing Institute of Guangdong Province, and Foshan Quality Measurement Supervision and testing center.

      According to the information released by the Guangdong Provincial Market Supervision Bureau, a total of 2000 products produced by 1108 enterprises were supervised and randomly selected. The production enterprises involved 15 cities in Guangdong Province, including Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Shantou, Foshan, Meizhou, Huizhou, Shanwei, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen, Yangjiang, Zhanjiang, Jieyang, Yunfu, Beijing, Tianjin, Liaoning, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Guangdong, China 14 provinces (cities and districts) including Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Shandong, Hubei, Guangxi, Hainan and Chongqing, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, as well as e-commerce platforms such as shop 1, Jingdong, mengbasha, Suning, tmall and vipshop. 688 products were found to be unqualified. The unqualified items mainly include "fiber content", "formaldehyde content", "decomposable carcinogenic aromatic amine dye", "pH value", "color fastness to water", "color fastness to acid sweat", "color fastness to alkali sweat", "color fastness to dry friction", "color fastness to wet friction", "color fastness to light", "pilling", "slippage (seam performance)," seam strength of back crotch seam "and" cashmere content "“ Such as cashmere content, cashmere filling amount, instructions for use, etc.

(1) fiber content: 326 products were judged to be unqualified for fiber content in this spot check. The project mainly examines whether the actual fiber composition and content of the product are consistent with the labeled fiber composition and content information, and whether the fiber composition and content of the product are correctly labeled according to the requirements of national standards. If the project is unqualified, it will affect consumers' normal purchase of textile products and directly damage the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.

Source: website of Guangdong Market Supervision Bureau

(2) formaldehyde content: three products were judged to be unqualified for formaldehyde content. The project is mainly to assess whether the free formaldehyde harmful to human body exceeds the standard. If the project is unqualified, formaldehyde will be released during the normal use of the product, which will cause harm to the human body through the skin and respiratory tract, especially the clothing that is close to the body.

Source: website of Guangdong Market Supervision Bureau

（3） Decomposable carcinogenic aromatic amine dyes: four products were determined as carcinogenic aromatic amine dyes, which were unqualified. In the process of long-term contact with human body, the harmful components of carcinogenic dyes involved in the project are absorbed by the skin. Under special conditions, more than 20 kinds of carcinogenic aromatic amines are decomposed to form carcinogenic aromatic amine compounds, which are easy to cause harm to human health.

（4） PH value: in this spot check, 14 products were determined as unqualified pH value items. The project is mainly to assess the acid-base degree of textiles. If the project is unqualified, the surface balance of the skin will be damaged in the normal use of the product, which will cause skin allergy or induce infection, which is not conducive to the health of human skin.

（5） Color fastness: in this spot check, 38 products were judged to be unqualified in terms of color fastness, including 6 color fastness to water, 4 color fastness to acid sweat, 4 color fastness to alkali sweat, 3 color fastness to dry friction, 19 color fastness to wet friction and 13 color fastness to light. This project is mainly to assess the ability of the dye dyed by the textile to maintain its original color after being exposed to various factors (such as sun exposure, washing, perspiration, friction, etc.). The project is unqualified. During the use of the product, the dye is easy to fall off and fade, which affects the beauty. Moreover, the shedding dye molecules or heavy metal ions may be absorbed by the human body through the skin and endanger the health.

（6） Pilling: 5 products were judged as unqualified in this spot check. This project is mainly to assess the pilling degree of products under external friction. If the project is unqualified, the product is easy to pilling and pilling, and the appearance is obviously poor. The friction, cohesion and wear resistance of the surface will also have different changes, which reduces the use performance of the fabric.

（7） Slippage (joint performance): 44 products were judged to be unqualified in this spot check. Main performance assessment of the product. When the item is unqualified, it will not only affect the beauty of the clothing, but also seriously reduce the wearing performance of the clothing.

（8） Joint strength of back crotch seam: three products were judged as unqualified in this spot check. This project mainly examines the wearability of the product. When the item is unqualified, it will not only affect the beauty of the clothing, but also seriously reduce the wearing performance of the clothing.

（9） Cashmere content: two products were determined as unqualified in this spot check. This project mainly examines the consistency between the expressed down content and the actual situation of down products. The higher the cashmere content is, the better the thermal insulation is. If the project is unqualified, it will affect consumers' purchase and use of products and directly damage the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.

（10） Cashmere content: two products were determined to be unqualified. This project mainly evaluates the content of down flower which can reflect the fine attribute components of down. Down content is the best part of down in thermal performance, and also represents the level of down quality. If the project is unqualified, it will affect consumers' purchase and use of products, and directly damage the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.

（11） The full amount of cashmere products is judged as unqualified 4 times. This project is mainly to check whether the weight of down filled with the product is consistent with the actual situation. If the project is unqualified, it will affect consumers' purchase and use of products, and directly damage the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.

（12） Instructions for use (marking): 524 products were judged as unqualified in the use instructions (marks) in this spot check. The project mainly assesses whether the product identification information meets the standard or explicit requirements. When the project is not qualified, consumers will lack the basis for the correct use of commodities, deprive consumers of the right to know about the goods, and is not conducive to the effective supervision of the commodity by the supervision department.

Guangdong Provincial Bureau of quality supervision of unqualified products will be reported to the Guangdong Provincial Administration of quality supervision on unqualified products after spot check According to the requirements of the regulations on post-processing of production enterprises, the relevant municipal market supervision and administration bureaus are required to deal with the unqualified products and their production enterprises in accordance with the law, including ordering the enterprises to stop producing and selling the unqualified products, issuing the rectification order notice, organizing the review according to law, and investigating and punishing the production enterprises with serious quality problems. Jingzhongwei (APP)