Measures for the Supervision and Administration of the Quality of Textile Products

Article 1

These Measures are formulated in accordance with the Product Quality Law of the People's Republic of China and other laws and administrative regulations for the purposes of strengthening the supervision and administration of the quality of textile products, ensuring the quality of textile products, and safeguarding the safety of persons and property.

Article 2

The production and sale of textile products, as well as the use of textile products in commercial services, shall comply with these Measures.

For the purposes of these Measures, textile products refer to daily-use textile products and non-daily-use wadding textile products. These Measures shall not apply to disposable sanitary products, glass fiber products, carbon fiber products and other such products.

Article 3

The State Administration for Market Regulation shall be in charge of the nationwide supervision of the quality of textile products. Local market supervision departments at or above the county level shall be responsible for the supervision of the quality of textile products within their respective administrative regions. Where the people's governments at or above the county level have separate provisions on the responsibilities for the supervision of the quality of textile products, such provisions shall prevail.

The China National Fiber Quality Monitoring Center shall undertake technical support work for the supervision of the quality of textile products and organize the implementation of quality monitoring of textile products. Professional fiber inspection institutions affiliated to local market supervision departments at or above the county level shall undertake technical support work for the supervision of the quality of textile products within their respective administrative regions and specifically implement quality monitoring of textile products.

Local market supervision departments at or above the county level may entrust their affiliated professional fiber inspection institutions that meet the conditions prescribed in Article 21 of the Administrative Penalty Law of the People's Republic of China to carry out administrative law enforcement in respect of textile products.

Article 4

Producers and sellers of textile products, as well as business operators that use textile products in commercial services, shall establish and improve a quality and safety management system for textile products, and perform their obligations in respect of the quality of textile products in accordance with the law.

Article 5

The quality of textile products shall meet the following requirements:(1) No unreasonable risks endangering the safety of persons and property shall exist; where there are mandatory national standards for protecting human health and the safety of persons and property, the products shall comply with such standards;(2) The products shall possess the intended performance, except where the defects in the intended performance of the products are indicated;(3) The products shall comply with the product standards indicated on the products or their packages, and conform to the quality conditions stated by way of product specifications, physical samples and other such means.

Article 6

It is forbidden to produce, sell or use in commercial services any of the following textile products:(1) Products that are adulterated or mixed with inferior components, passed off as genuine products, shoddy products passed off as quality products, or unqualified products passed off as qualified products;(2) Products on which quality marks are forged or fraudulently used;(3) Products on which the place of origin is forged, or the factory name and address of another person are forged or fraudulently used.

Article 7

It is forbidden to use any of the following substances in the processing and manufacture of textile products:(1) Medical fibrous waste;(2) Used funeral textile products;(3) Textile products from epidemic areas of infectious diseases for which non-contamination cannot be verified;(4) Waste textile products prohibited from import by the state and other fibers and textile products contaminated by toxic and harmful substances;(5) Other substances prohibited by the state from being used in the processing and manufacture of textile products.

Article 8

It is not permitted to use any of the following substances as raw materials for fillings and bedding of daily-use wadding textile products:(1) Contaminated fibers;(2) Waste textile products or reprocessed fibers;(3) Linter with a hand-torn length of less than 13 millimeters;(4) Fiber scraps, textile product scraps and reprocessed fibers that have undergone decolorization and bleaching;(5) Unwashed animal fibers;(6) Moldy and deteriorated fibers;(7) Other substances prohibited by the state from being used as raw materials for fillings and bedding of daily-use wadding textile products.

Among waste textile products or reprocessed fibers, uncontaminated fiber scraps, silk reeling by-products and washed animal fibers may be used as raw materials for fillings and bedding of daily-use wadding textile products; uncontaminated textile product scraps or reprocessed fibers may be used as raw materials for fillings and bedding of soft furniture and other such products after undergoing disinfection processes.

Article 9

It is forbidden to produce underwear and infant textile products using reprocessed fibers.

It is forbidden to use recycled chemical fibers as raw materials for fillings and bedding of infant wadding textile products, except for recycled polyester fibers.

Article 10

Producers of textile products shall establish and implement a system for the inspection, acceptance and recording of the purchase of raw and auxiliary materials to ensure that such materials meet the relevant quality requirements. Where raw and auxiliary materials are required by law to be marked with identification, the producers shall verify the qualification certificates and other identification marks. Records shall be kept for a period of not less than two years.

Records shall include the name, specification and quantity of raw and auxiliary materials, date of purchase, as well as the name, address and contact information of the supplier, among other details.

Article 11

Identification marks of textile products shall be authentic and include the following contents:(1) Qualification certificate for product quality inspection;(2) Name and address of the producer;(3) Product name, specification and product standard code;(4) Other contents prescribed by the state.

Where laws, regulations and mandatory national standards have separate provisions, such provisions shall prevail.