Eco-Friendly Textile Certification Is Becoming More Stringent.

At the beginning of 2016, OEKO-TEX international environmental protection.

The Association released the latest version of the OEKO-TEXStandard100 standard and limit requirement.

After 3 months of pition, the new standard will be formally implemented in April 1, 2016.

The new standard is fully integrated with the latest version of REACH (EU registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction of chemicals), a list of highly concerned substances (SVHC), "hazardous chemicals Zero Discharge (ZDHC)" and "detoxification actions".

The new OEKO-TEXStandard100 standard covers 12 changes. The details are as follows:

Perfluorinated compounds

In the perfluorinated compounds test, 3 new substances and their salts were detected, including perfluoroheptanic acid (PFHpA), perfluorononyl acid (PFNA) and perfluorodecic acid (PFDA).

The limit values for each substance are 0.05mg/kg (level I), 0.10mg/kg (II and III level) and 0.50mg/kg (IV level).

Organotin compounds

10 new organotin compounds are added.

These substances include tin butyrate (MBT), methyl tin (MMT), octyltin (MOT), two methyl tin (DMT), two phenyl tin (DPhT), tricyclic tin (TCyHT), trimethyl tin (TMT), three octyl tin (TOT), three propyltin (TPT) and four butyltin (TeBT).

The limit values for each substance are 1.0mg/kg (level I) and 2.0mg/kg (II to IV level) respectively.

O-benzoic acid two (softener)

In the phthalate two formic acid ester (softener) test item, new detection of phthalic acid two benzoic acid was added, and the regulatory requirements for the existing phthalate two formic acid were modified.

The limit values for grades II to IV are more stringent.

After the standard update, the total limit values of all two phthalate esters were 0.1% (1000mg/kg) for grades I to III, and for the level IV, the total limit value of all two phthalates was 0.1% (1000mg/kg) except for o-benzoic acid two (two).

UV stabilizer

For the class IV, add "UV stabilizer" test items.

The test item made regulatory requirements for 4 substances, including UV320, UV327, UV328 and UV350, with a limit of 0.1% (1000mg/kg) for each substance.

These substances were included in the SVHC candidate list in December 2014 and 2015.

Insecticide

7 new nicotinic substances, including acetamiprid, quinidine, furazolamide, imidacloprid, nitenpyridine, thiacloprid and thiamethoxam, were added to the insecticide test.

In addition, a new test for the discharge of the drug was added.

The limit value of total insecticide is the same as the current standard.

Phenol chloride

In chlorphenol test items, chlorinated and two chlorinated substituted phenols were added. The limit values were 0.5mg/kg (grade I) and 3.0mg/kg (II to IV).

Chlorobenzene and toluene chloride

In the calculation of total amount of chlorobenzene and chlorinated toluene, the amount of chlorobenzene was increased, and the limit of total quantity remained unchanged, still 1.0mg/kg.

Prohibition of carcinogenic dyes

In the list of banned carcinogenic dyes, a new C.I. alkaline blue 26 (more than 0.1% meter Hiller ketone or MI Hiller base), C.I. alkaline violet 3 (more than 0.1% m, Hiller or Michelet base), alkaline green 4 (malachite green chloride), alkaline green 4 (malachite green salt) and alkaline green 4 (peacock green) were also added.

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

The OEKO-TEX extraction method for detecting polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) was optimized again.

Compared with previous laboratory test results, the optimized method may make the detected PAH content higher, but the current limit value remains unchanged.

Residual surfactant

The limit values of nonylphenol (NP), octyl phenol (OP), nonylphenol ethoxylate NP (EO) and octyl phenol polyoxyethylene ether OP (EO) are changed from less than equal to 100mg/kg to less than 100mg/kg.

Flame retardant products

3 new substances were added to the list of banned flame retardants, including two - (2,3- dibrompropyl) phosphate (BIS), four bromo bisphenol A (TBBPA) and 2,2- bis (Xiu Jiaji) -1,3- propanediol (BBMP).

In addition, since January 1, 2016, as stipulated in the previous levels I to III, in the future, for IV grade products (home decoration materials), only flame retardant substances that have been assessed to be harmless (based on latest technology) and have been added to the OEKO-TEX approval list can be used.

Future flame-retardant products may only be used in category IV products.

Carcinogenic aromatic amine

In the category of "carcinogenic aromatic amines", the listed 4,4 '- two amino two phenyl methane (4,4' -diaminobiphenylmethane) will be changed to a more commonly used name (4,4 '-diaminodiphenylmethane).

However, OEKO-TEX clearly stated that the two names describe the same chemical substance.

OEKO-TEXStandard100 is a product certification in the field of textiles. It tests and certify all the toxic and harmful substances in the textile supply chain and plays an important role in the field of textiles harmful substances testing.

Since the establishment of the standard in 1992, OEKO-TEX has issued more than 150 thousand certificates. In 2015, more than 1.4 certificates were issued, an increase of 5.7% compared to 2014.

Since 2010, in the implementation of OEKO-TEXStandard100 based hazardous substances inspection, OEKO-TEX has implemented mandatory quality management audit all over the world.

The current audit evaluation shows that at least once every 3 years, the enterprise on-site audit can not only effectively ensure that.

The quality of the STePbyOEKO-TEX certification system can also provide effective support for the quality management module.

In addition to the detection of hazardous substances, OEKO-TEXStandard100 and its extensive market

Seminars and training on quality management audit and related topics play an important role in helping textile enterprises to discover and eliminate the unknown weaknesses in operation, especially those related to such actions as "ZDHC action" or "detoxification".