South Korea Revised Leather Products Safety Quality Labelling Act

< p > Korea, a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/" > leather < /a > products will face a new level.

In December 21, 2013, the amendment of the Korean leather product safety and quality label bill began to come into effect. The revision of this amendment involves a wide range of material restrictions and strict limits, which poses a challenge to the domestic leather manufacturing industry.

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< p > 1. In terms of chemical substances, 10 kinds of restricted substances have been added: formaldehyde, fumaric acid two methyl ester, pentachlorophenol, chromium, aromatic amine, 6 kinds of o-benzoic acid two formic acid, organotin (DBT and TBT), lead, cadmium and nickel. According to the leather products and the body's personal experience, the above substances are formulated in infant leather products, children's leather products, underwear, a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/" > clothes > /a > interlayer, coat, bedding and other leather products, ranging from 0.1 to 300mg/kg. Among them, the two limit of fumaric acid is the lowest in infant leather products.

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< p > two, in terms of physical properties, new requirements for small and medium-sized components of infant leather products, rope and rope requirements for baby and children leather products, and magnet requirements are added.

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< p > three, on labels, new warnings for small parts in baby leather articles are added, while the size labels of < a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/" > shoes < /a "must conform to KSMISO9407.

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< p > four, other amendments include the division of artificial leather into coated leather, laminated leather, composite leather, synthetic leather, and new additions or modifications to certain terms.

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< p > leather products, as high-risk and high-risk products, have been plagued by chemical residues and have been frequently recalled overseas.

Take the European Union's non food consumer goods quick warning system and the US CPSC withholding Chinese product data as an example. In 2013, only 38 cases were reported in the EU and the United States in China, and most of the products outside the door were products with low technical content and low added value, mainly for women's shoes, protective boots, leather gloves and baby shoes in 4 main categories.

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< p > in recent years, the export of leather industry in our country has risen vigorously, and the scale of production has expanded rapidly.

Leather products in Ningbo have also entered a steady growth track. They export fur, leather, leather furniture, toys, < a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/" each year, shoes and caps < /a > category, fur a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/" > clothing "less than" and gloves products more than 50 million dollars. The special products include leather chairs, mink skin clothes, children's fur pants, cowboy shoes and so on.

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At the same time, China's leather industry has also been severely blocked by internal and external factors such as "a href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp "export" /a > cost increase, the expansion of the middle and low end capacity in the industry and the depression of the economic environment. "

Inspection and quarantine experts pointed out that enterprises with weak technological strength will be more constrained by technical barriers to trade. The majority of enterprises should turn external pressure into internal driving force: on the one hand, we should improve the raw materials and formulations of leather products from the source of production, actively improve the environmental protection performance and ecological safety standards of products, strengthen the monitoring of chemical substance projects, and ensure that every process from raw materials to finished products meets the requirements of quality and safety.

On the other hand, efforts should be made to raise the level of production equipment and establish a green brand awareness, so as to speed up technological innovation and increase the added value of products as a magic weapon for winning the export, and further seize the opportunity to expand the living space.

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