Wenzhou Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine, said March 26 that the EU non-food rapid alert notification system (RAPEX) released a notice recently, city enterprise for export to Germany women's leather shoes to be informed of hexavalent chromium exceeded 2400 pairs of shoes been destroyed, the loss of more than 30,000 U.S. dollars.
It is reported that this notification a total of nine cases involving hexavalent chromium exceeded informed of product material, all leather, including five cases of three cases of the gloves, footwear and one cases belt, informed the country's main German. Inspection and quarantine departments textile Director the Song Yiguo introduced last year, the European Union were reported over 20 leather products from hexavalent chromium exceeded, showing that the EU is more and more attention, hexavalent chromium, spot checks has been enhanced.
Hexavalent chromium has a strong photosensitivity and sensitization can lead to clinically significant contact eczema, and have a stimulating effect on the skin and mucous membrane, can induce lung cancer and nasopharyngeal cancer, belong to the carcinogen. The Song Yiguo said, leather raw material itself does not contain chromium, most of the chromium in the leather tanning process to produce the.
Wenzhou, Inspection and Quarantine Bureau reminds export enterprises, should be highly concerned about the hexavalent chromium content of the exports of leather products, to speed up the highly toxic residues to improve or adjust the tanning process, to avoid hexavalent chromium. The same time, strengthen the management of the procurement of raw and auxiliary materials, the selection of qualified material suppliers, and to strengthen purchase inspection checks.
It's written by GoodLandShoes date 3.30.2012
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