Source: Yiwu sourcing agent Author: Gary Date: 2008-12-08
Recently,Yiwu artificial ornaments association cooperated with more than 30 enterprises to examine and approve the draft of Restriction on the Limits of Noxious Substance in Artificial Ornaments and its Testing Method.
Ornament industry is one of the pillar industries of Yiwu . According to the statistics,Yiwu has over 3800 ornament manufacturing enterprises with about 150,000 employees . Its products have been exported to over 170 countries and regions such as US and Japan . Last year, the total turnover of Yiwu ornament industry is 12 billion yuan, including an export turnover of over 8 billion yuan . At the beginning of this year, the relevant departments of Yiwu cooperated with
Zhejiang Standardization Inst i t u t e ,National Daily Commodity Quality Inspection Center and some Yiwu enterprises to investigate the product inspection ability of key ornament enterprises in Yiwu,the main export destination of orn aments ,the safety factors concerned by customers,the happening of cargo detainment ,sales returns,recalls and their reasons . They eventually made the Restriction on the Limits of Noxious Subs tancein Artificial Ornaments and its Testing Method based on the investigation . In this standard, the restrictions on the limits of noxious substance in children’s ornaments, adults’ornaments ,and ornaments with or without direct contact to skin have been made respectively .
Meanwhile,a clear regulation on noxious substance testing methods ,testing rules and testing logo requi rement has been made.
The standard making of noxious substance in ornaments is the request of dealing with foreign technical barriers and will help
the establishment of technical standard system based on international standard .
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