Eurofins | Newsflash - December 2018 | Textile & Leather

China

Eurofins China laboratories expand their capabilities for China Market Eurofins´ labs continue expanding their capabilities to offer a one-stop-service solution to their customers by recently including additional services to complement their offers for Consumer Products entering the Chinese Market. The Eurofins laboratories located in Hangzhou and Shanghai are now CNAS and CMA accredited for more than 200 Chinese standards in order to ensure that our clients´ products addressed to the Chinese market are in full compliance with the applicable standards.

The families of products in the scope include:

• Textiles and related
• Food contact materials
• Toys and children’s products
• And others

The service portfolio covers:

• Consultancy
• Testing
• Certification
• Packaging and Labelling Check

Should you have any question, please feel free to contact with GB-Testing-CN@eurofins.com.

Europe

Explanatory guide on Regulation (EU) 1513/201

Last month, we already informed about the publication of Regulation (EU) 1513/2018. It modifies Annex XVII to REACH Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 by including a new entry (Entry 72) that apply  to textile products and all products that under normal or reasonably foreseeable conditions of use come into contact with human skin to an extent similar to clothing.

According to this scope definition, this means that textile toys such as Plush toys, Stuffed and Textile toys/dolls that, under normal or reasonably foreseeable conditions of use can be in contact with the skin of children to an extent similar to clothing (during play or even sleeping), are considered to be under the scope of this new regulation.

However, for these products, if any other legislation applicable to toys, such as the Toy Safety Directive 2009/48/EC, establishes lower limits for any of the substances covered in this restriction, those lower limits would apply.

The European Commission has published an explanatory guide on the restriction on CMRs 1A and 1B in textiles and clothing with the purpose of clarifying the scope of this regulation.

Click here for getting the guide from European Commission website.

Europe

Standards updates

Below a summary table with some recent standards updates and upcoming dates of withdrawal (non-exhaustive):

 (*) Date of withdrawal: latest date by which national standards conflicting with an EN (and HD for CENELEC) have to be withdrawn

Turkey

New draft standard for textile-wool woven fabrics On 15th November 2018, the Turkish Ministry of Industry and Technology notified the “Communiqué on TS 2793 Textile-Wool Woven Fabrics for Apparel Use” to the World Trade Organization (WTO). This standard covers the sample description, characteristics, sampling, inspection and tests, placing on the market procedures of textile -wool woven fabrics used for apparel. This standard does not apply to fabrics used in clothing accessories (necktie etc.) and fabrics for decoration (upholstery, drapery, drape etc.) Click here for getting the notification published in the European Commission website with reference G/TBT/N/TUR/133.

US

Standards updates

Below a summary table with some recent ASTM standards updates:

Canada

Exemption of recycled down and other feather products as stuffing On 25th September 2018, the exemption of Upholstered and Stuffed Articles Regulation 218/01 was published by Minister of Government and Consumer Services (Ontario). This exemption allows the use of recycled down and other feather products that the regulation 2018/01 did not previously allow. This exemption is effective from 25th September 2018. Click here for getting the official publication.

Canada

Carcinogenicity potential from 7 colorant ingredients

On 3^rd November, the Government of Canada published a draft screening assessment of seven Anthraquinones substances with carcinogenicity potential.
 
Theses 7 substances are:
 

• Solvent violet 13
• Pigment blue 60
• Solvent violet 59
• Solvent blue 36
• Disperse red 60
• Acid blue 239
• "9,10-Anthracenedione, 1,4-diamino-, N,N'-mixed 2-ethylhexyl", including methyl- and pentyl- derivatives

 
Click here for getting the Draft screening assessment Anthraquinones group.

Product recalls/Alerts

Below you will find a monthly summary of product recalls and alerts in Europe (Source “RAPEX”) and in the US (Source “CPSC”).

Europe

RAPEX (European Commission Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products – Alerts reported by EU national authorities).

The following 15 alerts regarding textile & leather products have been reported, from week 43 until week 46.

US

CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) has published the following recalls: 1 recall regarding textile & leather products.

Chem-MAP