In September, 2016, there were total 11 recall cases of footwear products in foreign countries including the USA, Canada, EU and Australia, and 4 of them coming from China.

The reasons of recall are mainly small parts falling off risk for Girls’ boots, baby headband, girls’ shoes and sandals, baby girls winter boots; the safety problem for TurboToe overshoe; the excessive contents of chromium VI in ladies shoes, leather sandals.

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Recall cases in Canada:

Recall cases in EU:

Suggestion

Recall cases of small parts problem and excessive contents of chromium VI are frequent. Manufacturer should take measures in advance at every stage to meet the requirement of regulation and customers, such as structure design without small parts, sharp point or sharp edge, raw material without hazardous substance and safety footwear must comply with Personal protective equipment regulation and standard. In order to ensure all products transported to the other countries are safe, the products should be submitted to the authorized and professional third part laboratories to verify global safety requirements before transported to other countries.

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