China Releases 20 National Standards on Infant Products, Textiles and Other Goods

The State Administration for Market Regulation recently released 20 national safety standards covering infant products, textiles, shoes and consumer goods. Infant Feeding Bottles and Teats specifies the technical requirements for the safe use of these products and stipulates that all purchase information, constituent materials, instructions for use and safety warnings should be marked on the product, and on any sales packaging and manual literature. Technical Specifications of Ecological Textiles sets down new restrictions and requirements on toxic and hazardous substances and promotes research and development into green dyes and dyeing agents and the upgrading of green production technologies. Consumer Product Traceability – General Technical Requirements for Traceability System and two other standards are aimed at speeding up the application of modern information technology in developing consumer product traceability.

Source: State Administration for Market Regulation