Shanghai Quality And Technical Supervision Bureau: 94% Contains Free Formaldehyde But Not Exceeding The Standard.

< p > Shanghai quality and Technology Supervision Bureau's 20 day Bulletin of leather clothing product quality and safety risk monitoring results showed that ONLY, ESPRIT, SEVEN seven card and other nominal brand goods were found to contain free formaldehyde, but did not exceed the relevant standard limits.

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< p > leather clothing may contain excessive free formaldehyde, decomposable harmful aromatic amine dyes, six valent chromium and other harmful substances during the production process. During the long wearing process, inhalation through skin or inhalation of respiratory tract may cause inflammation, allergy, and even cause lesions and induce cancer in the human body.

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< p > national mandatory standard GB20400-2006 "limits on harmful substances in leather and fur" limits the content of free formaldehyde and decomposable aromatic amine dyes in leather and fur, and the content of formaldehyde in leather is less than 300mg/kg, which can decompose harmful aromatic amine dye to less than 30mg/kg.

However, the standard applies to leather and fur raw material products, not including the products they produce.

Industry recommended standard QB/T 1615-2006 "leather clothing" harmful substances limit is also not provided.

The recommended standard of industry QB/T 2880-2007 "< a href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp > children's leather shoes < /a > stipulates that the six valence chromium content of children's leather shoes is less than 10mg/kg, but the leather clothing product standard does not stipulate the quota of six valent chromium content.

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< p > to evaluate < a href= > //www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp > leather garments > /a > product quality and safety situation, recently, Shanghai quality and Technology Supervision Bureau has carried out the risk monitoring of leather garment products quality and safety. According to GB/T 19941-2005, "determination of formaldehyde content in leather and fur chemical test", GB/T19942 "determination of prohibited azo dyes in leather and fur chemistry test", and GB/T 22807-2008 "leather and fur chemical test six valent chromium content determination", the contents of free formaldehyde, decomposable harmful aromatic amine dyes and six valent chromium in leather garment products were detected, and risk assessment was carried out according to the test results.

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< p > < < a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp > > risk monitoring > /a > collecting 50 batches of samples. After testing, 47 batches of free formaldehyde were detected, but none of them exceeded 300mg/kg.

Among them, a batch of trademark leather is "LOUISA M road Yi Sha Mei", the free formaldehyde content is "254mg/kg".

The products with free formaldehyde content exceeding 100 mg/kg also refer to the famous brand products such as Florence FOLUNSI, Goldlion Goldlion, costar road Chris&Roeder, BADINA, padna, Kaiser KAISER and so on.

ONLY, ESPRIT, SEVEN Qipai, E P, Lilai Lilly, Satchi, Lister and other nominal brand products were also found to contain free formaldehyde.

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< p > test results also showed that 6 batches of decomposed harmful aromatic amine dyes were detected, but none of them exceeded 30mg/kg, and the nominal trademarks involved Berry vitality, BADINA batten, Florence FOLUNSI, D.NADA, ZUKKA PRO, DANIEL HECHTER, etc. 11 batches of six valent chromium were detected, one of which was rated as "CHABER" leather coat six valence chromium content was 14 mg/kg.

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< p > Shanghai quality and Technical Supervision Bureau said that leather clothing is a kind of non direct contact with skin. Taking into account the seriousness of risk and the possibility of risk, experts from the organization have assessed that the risk level of formaldehyde, decomposable aromatic amine dyes and six valent chromium content in leather clothing is "low risk".

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< p > Shanghai quality and Technology Supervision Bureau has informed the relevant production enterprises of the results of risk monitoring, urged enterprises to strictly implement the national standards, strengthen quality control, and reduce or eliminate the risk of quality and safety.

It also suggests that relevant departments should improve relevant national standards.

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