In January, 2017, there were total 15 recall cases of textile and footwear products in foreign countries including the US, Canada, EU and Australia, and 7 of them coming from China.

The reasons of recall are mainly the rope strangulation risk for children’s sweatshirt, children’s dress; small parts falling off risk for sweatshirts and romper suit for babies; the excessive contents of chromium VI in leather trousers, leather toiletry bag, leather jacket; the excessive contents of formaldehyde in girls’ dress; the excessive contents of nickel in sandals; the flammability problem for bath robes.

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Suggestion

Recall cases of the rope strangulation risk for children’s apparel, small parts falling off risk for babies’ apparel, the excessive contents of chromium VI in leather product, the flammability problem for children's sleepwear are frequent. Manufacturer should take measures in advance at every stage to meet the requirement of regulation and customers, such as structure design without rope strangulation risk, small parts, sharp point or sharp edge, raw material without hazardous substance. 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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