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VN/ViệtnamIn accordance with notifications on EU rapid alert system for textiles (RAPEX) in March 2016, The European Commission has notified 16 cases of textiles and footwear. Which include short trousers, children's tracksuit, children’s sweat shirt, children’s clothing set, children’s trousers, gloves, girls' dress, women's shoes, girls' sandals and clothing accessories. These products do not comply with the REACH Regulation, with the relevant European standard EN 14682 or with the relevant national standard UNE 40902.
The notifying country included Hungary, Germany, United Kingdom, Spain and ect. Details please see the follow photo:
Hungary was the most frequently notifying countries, (total 7 notifications, accounted for 44%). Other country notified less.
There called products mainly do not comply with the REACH Regulation or with the relevant European standard EN 14682, there are four notified risk categories, such as small parts, chemical (Cr(VI), AZO and phthalate), injury, strangulation. The most frequently notified risk is strangulation injuries of drawstring, accounted for 53%.
BACL Suggestion
According to the RAPEX Statistics, apparently, strangulation injuries of drawstring are obviously the most frequently notified risk category for textiles. So that textiles’ manufacturer, importer and distributor should pay more attention to the safety of textiles through the relevant European standard EN 14682. Manufacturer should take measures in advance at every stage to meet the requirement of EU textiles regulation and customers, such as structure design without drawstring or small parts, raw material without hazardous substance and so on. In order to ensure all products transported to the European Union are safe, the textiles should be submitted to the authorized and professional third part laboratories to verify EU textiles safety requirements before transported to EU countries.