Japan Renewing Two Regulations On Textiles

It is reported that the Japanese authorities have announced that two new regulatory standards on the use and nursing labelling of harmful chemicals will gradually take effect in 2016.

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The number of nursing symbols increased from 22 to 41, providing more detailed information about nursing methods and costs when consumers buy Textiles.

After the effective date, textiles must be labelled with new care labels to be accepted by the Japanese market.

Japan's Ministry of health and labour (MHLW) has amended the long established law No. 112nd, which limits all textiles and clothing imported into the Japanese market.

The formaldehyde content is also one of the mandatory limiting harmful substances.

The new regulation restricts the decomposition and release of any 24 kinds of harmful aromatic amines.

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The threshold value of each aromatic amine should not exceed 30 mg / kg by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.

The amendment Ordinance will come into force on April 1, 2016.

The Japanese Consumer Affairs Office (CAA) has approved the adoption of the new nursing label standard JIS L0001-2014 "textile care labelling symbol" (Textile Care Labelling CodeUsing Symbols), which will replace the existing nursing label standard according to the household products Quality Labeling Act (HouseholdProducts Quality Labelling).

The new standard will be coordinated with the ISO international nursing labelling system ISO3758 and will take effect from December 1, 2016.

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In February 1, 2016, 2 international standards ISO 17881-1:2016, "determination of certain flame retardants for textiles, first parts: brominated flame retardants" and "ISO 17881-2:2016" determination of certain flame retardants for textiles, were developed by China Textile Standard (Beijing) inspection and Certification Center Co., Ltd., second part: phosphorus flame retardant.

Flame-retardant textiles are added to textiles by spinning or fabric finishing. Due to the potential health threats and environmental pollution caused by some flame retardants, many countries, regions and organizations have issued regulations and technical standards to control the flame retardants in textiles. There is no uniform detection method.

In the absence of international standards, the China Textile Standard took the lead in 2012 to propose a new work proposal for the establishment of an international standard for the prohibition of restricted flame retardants in textiles, which attracted the attention of all countries.

During this period, the Sino spinning standard organized a joint trial among 5 laboratories as the lead unit of the project, and successfully hosted the WG working group meeting in Beijing, with experts from 7 countries, including Japan, Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland and the United States, to reach a consensus on the main technical contents of the standard.

The project lasted four years and was officially released in 2016.

The issuance of the 2 ISO international standards is an important achievement of China's textile industry's substantive participation in internationalization. It further consolidates China's leading position in the field of textile ecological safety detection, and plays a positive role in promoting the internationalization of standards and technologies in the field of textile advantages and characteristics.