Recently,

The inspection and Quarantine Bureau found in a batch of Japanese imported cotton jacquard fabrics that the pH value was 9.4, which exceeded our mandatory standard GB18401 - 2010.

The specified 4.0-8.5 limit requirements; shrinkage rate to -7.2%, weft -6.6%, exceeding the standard requirements of the warp and weft direction of China's "cotton yarn weaving" FZ/T13007-2008 are -3%, and then require the import enterprises to re wash and organize accordingly.

It is reported that the batch import

It is imported by a clothing company in Changzhou to make women's products.

and

It belongs to the textile products that directly contact the skin.

Some enterprises prefer imports when making high-grade fabrics. However, many inspection and quarantine institutions in the country have repeatedly found that the imported fabrics are not qualified. They include azo dyes, formaldehyde content, pH value, color fastness, and so on, which are related to human safety, health and environmental protection.

Azo dye will release carcinogenic aromatic amine compounds after long term contact with human skin, which is a strong carcinogenic inducement. Formaldehyde content exceeds the standard will release formaldehyde in the process of wearing, cause respiratory and skin inflammation, and even induce cancer; pH over standard will directly damage the weak acidic environment of human skin surface, weaken the skin's ability to resist the invasion of germs, cause local or even systemic allergy, and even cause skin ulceration.

In addition, the shrinkage rate is not harmful to human health and safety, but it will cause the number of imported enterprises to lose, and after making garments, the size of washing will reduce the wear.

Changzhou inspection and quarantine department reminds consumers not to blindly believe in imported fabrics when buying clothes.

When choosing, we should pay attention to the following points: first, we must check the relevant Chinese components annotation and washing methods, and guard against "foreign words" and even false annotations; two, do not be confused by some "beautiful appearance, poison containing them", especially infants and young children's clothing should avoid choosing bright and complex fabrics; three, try not to buy clothes with pungent smell.