In 2016, RAPEX published 266 notifications on clothing, shoes and fashion items.

The most common risks linked to clothing, shoes and fashion items are ‘Choking’, ‘Strangulation‘ and ‘Chemical’ risks in 2016, map as below:

RAPEX: abbreviation of The Rapid Alert System which enables quick exchange of information between European countries and the European Commission about dangerous non-food products posing a risk to health and safety of consumers.

The RAPEX system relies on the close cooperation between the European Commission and the member state regulators, put forward the preventive or restrictive measures on consumer products which may bring serious risk to the health and safety, Such measures can be implemented by regulatory agencies (such as Ban on the marketing ), and / or by the operator (such as withdrawal or recall from consumers from the market).

BACL Note: small parts, strangulation, chemical such as Cr(VI), phthalate, AZO, SCCPs, PAHs, total lead, cadmium and nickel release etc, are all high risk items of clothing and fashion product. And small parts, chemical such as Cr(VI), AZO, SCCPs, PAHs, DMF and nickel release etc, are all high risk items of shoe product, To be safe, establish an integrated product safety traceability mechanism, and set up a quality and safety critical control point in the product design, manufacturing process control, final testing and other aspects. To form a security management system of whole process from headstream of production to the point of sale terminal, thus to make sure product safe, effective and stable.

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BACL, headquartered in the United Sates, is a global comprehensive international third-party testing and certification service organization. With knowledge of the laws and regulations of various market, BACL can not only offer testing and certification services for finished products including textile and garment, shoes and toys, but also help companies to execute quality control over the whole industry chain from raw material to finished products.