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Melamine Is Also Available In Clothing.

2008/9/23 13:26:00 39

Recently, Sanlu milk powder melamine incident has aroused great concern of the whole nation, especially mothers.

According to the reporter, melamine is also widely used in textile and leather industries, and the production standard of clothing has aroused people's attention again.

According to the reporter from the Foshan Textile Industry Association learned that China's first infant (less than 24 months old) clothing standards start next month.

According to the relevant person in charge of the Municipal Textile Industry Association, melamine is a widely used basic organic chemical intermediate product, which can be used as flame retardant, water reducing agent, formaldehyde cleaner and so on. It is widely used in wood, plastics, coatings, paper making, textile, leather, electrical, medical and pharmaceutical industries.

It was revealed that melamine formaldehyde resin mixed with other raw materials could also produce fabric finishing agents, leather tanning agents, glazing agents and water repellents.

In leather products, melamine formaldehyde resin is used more, so its leaders remind parents to try not to buy Leather clothing or clothing with leather pieces to children, and do not let children play with leather items, such as wallet, leather key buckle, so that children can not bite and affect health.

According to Wu Haoliang, Secretary General of the Municipal Textile Industry Association, the current market for children's clothing is very confusing. The first national standard formulated specifically for the safety of infant clothing will be put into effect next month. Besides the strict requirements for fabrics, there are rules and regulations for the maximum size and washing standards of pullovers.

The standard clearly stipulates that the formaldehyde content of infant clothing should not exceed 20 mg per kilogram, and the arsenic content should not exceed 0.2 mg per kilogram.

The standard specifies that infant clothing must be marked "not dry cleaned" on the product label.

Because dry cleaners may contain substances that irritation to infants and young children.

At the same time, the standard explicitly requires that the decomposable aromatic amine dyes are forbidden in infant clothing, and there should be no peculiar smell.