From January 2010, Korea will adopt a safety standard system for all apparel and leather products. In this way, when consumers purchase such products, they can clearly know whether the product contains harmful substances.
The relevant person in charge of the Technical Standards Institute under the Korea Ministry of Knowledge Economy stated that according to the "Quality Management and Public Product Safety Management Law" regulations, the safety management system for clothing products used for household consumption was revised and additional indirect contact with skin clothing was added. The safety inspection of formaldehyde and other harmful chemical substances in the product strengthens the product safety standards.
So far, South Korea's management of harmful substances such as formaldehyde in clothes is still limited to baby clothing and underwear products under 24 months. However, recently, harmful substances harmful to the health of consumers have been detected in casual trousers, fur products and leather products. Therefore, the Ministry of Knowledge Economy has defined the scope of self-regulatory safety certification for apparel products on the basis of the original “baby apparel products and contact apparel productsâ€, and added “children's apparel productsâ€, and plans to include “adult contact apparel products for adultsâ€. Into the scope of the safety quality mark object.
Park Jung-kui, who is responsible for the research on life product safety of the Korean Institute of Technology and Standards, believes: “This time the revision of the safety standards for household consumer apparel products is in line with the trend of safety management for apparel products in developed countries such as Europe and the United States, which will be beneficial to consumer consumer products. Safety."