Chinese children's clothing exposed "sense detection" hidden rules

China's children's clothing has been shocked "quality door" has repeatedly extracted azo and other carcinogens, deputy secretary-general of the China Garment Association Xie Qing revealed that the average pass rate of children's wear in Guangdong Province is only 60% for 5 years, and even several samplings have drawn azo, etc. Carcinogenic substances; The children's wear in Guangdong Province, which accounts for more than 30% of the total output of children's wear in the country, is of concern. A survey by the reporter found that children's clothing factories are different in production and inside. Poor supervision and lack of detection have also led to overall quality problems in children's clothing.

In April this year, the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine conducted a quality survey on the garment industry in Guangdong. As the result was not optimistic, a large number of children's clothing enterprises were called upon to hold an analysis meeting of national quality inspections of children's wear. “I attended this meeting and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine directed children’s wear. The issue is very important.” Xie Qing told reporters, “This year, according to the test, children's wear in Guangdong Province has always been a low pass rate. The pass rate in 5 years is only about 60%, and even several random checks have resulted in cancerous substances such as azo.”

The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) has always put children's wear as the focus of quality supervision and published the results of the inspection on its website. The reporter observed that the results announced at the end of April showed that 105 companies had unqualified products.

Liu Liangyu of the Children's Rescue Committee of the Chinese Social Work Association pointed out that "children's diseases have occurred, and inferior children's products have accounted for more than 5%, and formaldehyde in children's wear and infant clothes has become the biggest killer, not using environmental protection products. Some children's clothing that goes to the market contains toxic substances and poses a great threat to children's health."

Dual standards co-exist in the same factory "sensory testing" as a hidden rule for the safety of children's products, Europe and the United States and Japan have strict regulations, Guangdong is a large province of children's clothing exports, not incapable of completing the production of high-quality products. The reporter's investigation found that low-quality domestically produced products and high-quality export products exist in Guangdong and can even exist in the same factory.

Wang Xiaoming, chairman of Foshan Wanxin Garment Factory, told reporters that in the same style of children's wear, the prices given by mainland enterprises are only 60% of exports, and this gap in price leads to a quality gap. When asked by reporters about the quality gap between export and domestic children's wear, Wang Xiaoming made it clear that we couldn't see the gap in our garment factory. The real difference is in the upstream, and the issues of “fabrics, accessories, printing and dyeing” are all problems. It is in these links.

In addition, Wang Xiaoming said that in the country, you can find the best material in the world; you can also find the same material with the best material appearance and feel, but it is a completely different process and composition. Unless sent to a professional institution for inspection, laymen and even some of the purchases with a shorter working life are indistinguishable. ”

All the unspoken rules in the industry are well-known to everyone. It has become commonplace to produce different quality products in the same factory.

Wan Gengzhi, owner of Shunhua Garment Co., Ltd., separated from Wanxin Garment Factory, said that we started exporting children's clothes from 2005 until several hundred batches of goods were exported in 2009. No problems were detected at one time. EU standards. In his view, although the upstream industry is a mixed bag, it is not impossible to find a good partner. However, since they began selling children's clothes in 2009, they have been blacklisted twice by the quality inspection departments of Tianjin and Guangzhou. "Domestic businesses offer only 50% of foreign prices. They do not ask for quality issues. That will be the result." Liu Gengzhi said.

According to industry sources, the price of children's wear in the Chinese market is not lower than in the United States, but a large amount of channel costs have eaten up profits, making the factory production process not profitable. Therefore, under the premise of not affecting the appearance quality, many factories reduce the standard when purchasing fabrics, and low-cost fabrics will inevitably cause low-quality products. In the export of products, the purchaser usually asks the factory to produce a test report from a well-known third-party organization. Even if the factory adds the inspection fee to the cost, it is still profitable.

Inadequate supervision and enforcement "Domestic quality monitoring is optional"

"Now, the profit rate of children's wear in the domestic market is only 5% to 8%. The factory in the aspect of fabric purchase is naturally the lower the price, the better." Wu Fangfang, president of Green Box Children's Wear, told reporters: "Once, a batch of products are being purchased. On the fabrics, we once asked the other party to present a product quality inspection report and the other party also produced it. However, when we processed the fabric into ready-made garments, we failed to pass the inspection again.” In addition, Wu Fangfang analyzed the causes and said, “The fabric suppliers provided The test data is provided by the local testing department, and our test data is made in first-tier cities such as Shanghai and Beijing, and is more authoritative.”

Xie Qing, deputy secretary-general of the Garment Association, pointed out directly: “Actually, our country has comprehensive and strict regulations on children's products. However, there are some problems at the implementation level. Some testing organizations in some places will show up for fees. Problematic test report."

Wu Fangfang revealed that most of the requirements that can really meet the requirements for the quality of children's wear are foreign businessmen and brands. “There are 70% of children's clothes in the country that enter the market through the wholesale market. These products have serious quality problems.”

“Actually, the relevant agencies of the country will also be inspected in the wholesale market, but the inspection effort is still far from enough,” said Wu Fangfang. For inspections by the quality inspection department, there are many ways for businesses to escape. “Each year, for example, the testing of the wholesale market for children’s wear in Guangzhou is carried out four times, almost every time at a fixed time. Once they are checked, the merchants immediately replace them with high quality. The product, the inspector immediately replaced another batch of products."

"The country has very strict standards for children." Wang Xiaoming told reporters that children's clothes such as 0-3 years old are even required to have "saliva-resistance" (that is, the chemical substances on garments will not be discolored by saliva). However, it is true that local authorities have the ability to detect "saliva-resistant liquids" in children's clothing "for quality inspection departments in several first-tier cities."

“When accepting export orders, the customer even asked for a report from a Hong Kong or European and American inspection agency,” Wang Xiaoming told reporters. This process is costly for manufacturers. “For example, children's clothing is very colorful, and usually there are thousands of tests for each color.” Yuan, a batch of clothes sometimes only has to have tens of thousands of yuan for testing."

However, the process of testing domestic products is worrying. Liu Gengzhi pointed out: "Compared with the international comparison, domestic orders are very different. The low price is an aspect. On the other hand, quality monitoring is not optional. Foreign customers must refine the inspection of each color. However, as long as the appearance, feel and taste of domestic customers can be no problem, the industry called pure sensory inspection."

The operation level of the national standard was recommended by the experts criticized by the company as “AQSIQ decentralization”

"Some factories want to protect their own product quality is also more than enough." Wang Haisong, vice president of well-known children's products brand in China, told reporters, "because baby and children's products usually detect the risk element is very small, so The accuracy of the equipment required for testing is very high and it is completely different from conventional equipment."

Since the quality of children's products is related to the upstream raw materials, in order to fully control the quality, it is necessary to have its own testing equipment. "A normal children's wear and children's products factory, investment in production equipment is also less than 10 million, how could they invest heavily in testing equipment." And, to establish a complete detection system, "There must be a central laboratory, each factory also There must be factory inspection equipment."

National and local testing methods are also very limited, Wang Haisong said: “A lot of local testing organizations will not spend millions of dollars to buy a set of imported testing equipment to check the lead content of a baby carriage. The country needs more than just Big investment in children's products testing equipment, but also to strengthen the ability of various local quality inspection agency operators, many testers do not know how to detect."

National standards are clear, and operational aspects have been criticized by companies. "Such as how the product is sampled, many operators do not know." Wang Hailu believes that this also restricts the authority of children's product testing.

“The quality problem has been detected in a recent big brand is that the cotton content on the cuffs does not meet the requirements.” Wu Fangfang, president of the Green Box, said, “This is a requirement for the minutiae. There will only be large-scale clothing in foreign countries. Cotton content requirements."

“In fact, currently the quality inspection agencies do not have the strength to conduct testing on all factories, and it is impossible to test all children’s clothing products.” In response, Xie Qing and Wang Haijun consistently provided the solution to the AQSIQ decentralization and quality. The testing industry is fully market-oriented, and the society establishes trustworthy testing organizations.

"I talked to the quality inspection department about this issue. They still hope to reclaim this right and not give up." Wang Hailu revealed.

In Europe and the United States, third-party testing agencies perform quality inspections and invest in testing equipment. Products enter a country's market, as long as the importer specifies a third-party testing agency, they can obtain inspection data at any time. Wang Haisong stated that “the marketization of inspection institutions will also be improved in terms of professionalism and solve the current regulatory issues.”