Shanghai Port Imported Baby Clothing Failed To Exceed 20%

On the occasion of the June 1 children's day, the marketing offensive of children's clothing has started, especially imported baby clothes have been popular among consumers in recent years.

What about the quality and safety of imported baby clothes?

From January 1st to the end of May this year, the Shanghai customs conducted a sample inspection of 1478 imported baby garments, and found 331 batches of unqualified products, with an unqualified rate of 22.4%.

The main unqualified items are color fastness, rope belt, tensile strength of accessories, etc.

These unqualified items are related to infant and child health and safety.

It is understood that children's clothing rope caused the death of children suffocation occurred repeatedly, customs officers use the dummy to carry out the scene simulation of the harm of the clothing rope. When the long rope is stuck on the slide, wardrobe or door, it will cause children to stop because they can not break free.

Products with poor color fastness and their shedding dyes and heavy metal ions may irritate the skin.

Children, especially infants and young children, are prone to wear clothes with hands and mouth contacts. Once the color fastness of clothes is poor, they can pfer chemical dyes and finishing agents to children through saliva, sweat stains and so on, thus causing harm to their health.

However, the unqualified strength of accessories is the lack of sewing strength that is attached to the garment, such as connection and decoration. It is easy to be choked and injured by the infant's swallowing.

In addition, some brands imported baby clothes failed.

Shanghai customs found that the quality of imported clothing of some high-grade brands was not satisfactory, and the rate of failure was more than 40%, far exceeding the average failure rate of imported baby garments in the same period of Shanghai port. The Shanghai customs had carried out risk control for related situations. The next step is to make full use of big data to strengthen the risk management of high attention products, realize safety with big data, facilitate with big data, and achieve a high degree of organic integration of safety and convenience with big data.

Shanghai customs reminds that when parents choose clothes for their children, they should also pay attention to the built-in labels of personal clothes, so as not to irritate the children's skin. In the color of clothes, it is best to choose light cotton clothes, buy new clothes, wash them once again, and avoid wearing colors to cause harm to children's health.

In addition, clothing containing decorative sequins and bright beads easily fall off will cause the risk of swallowing. Therefore, it is not recommended to buy such clothing.