AQSIQ publicises safety information on quality of imported consumer products

On 17 May 2016, General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ) held a press conference to notify surveillance data and safety information on the quality of imported consumer products such as child safety seats, garments, food contact articles and disposable sanitary products.
 
Child safety seats have been subject to the legal inspection of imported and exported products since 1 February 2015, says the inspection and supervision official of AQSIQ. There are 1,225 batches of imported child safety seats (total: 385,000) at Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine Authorities in China (Authorities). The countries of origin include Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, France, Italy and other 12 countries and regions. The Authorities inspected 1,109 batches of products on the field and found 219 batches were non-compliant (rate of non-compliance:19.7%) caused by reasons as labels, Chinese identifications, instruction manuals, flammability and dynamic test. In the first quarter of 2016, competent departments has inspected 240 batches of child safety seats and found 18 batches non-compliant, rate of non-compliance as 7.50%, which is greatly reduced compared with the previous year. Those non-compliant products mainly come from Germany, Portland and France.
 
In 2015, the Authorities inspected 108,000 batches of imported food contact materials worth of USD 670 million, achieving a year-on-year increase of 35.7% in batches and a decrease of 9.8% in goods value. There are 8,331 batches among them are non-compliant (rate of non-compliance:7.71%) caused by labels, safety hygiene and other tests. The non-compliance of labels lies in lacking of Chinese labels and identifications or the contents hereof do not comply with relevant provisions. Meanwhile, failure in safety hygiene includes dangerous levels of migration of heavy metals, evaporities, fluorescent substance of paper products and lead. Other non-compliance includes inconsistency in products and certificates, quality defect, etc.
 
In 2015, the Authorities inspected 74,900 batches of imported garments worth of USD 2.243 billion achieving a year-on-year increase of 6.32%, 3,446 tons of children’s wear worth of USD 1.289 billion. The Authorities found 1,839 batches (113,290 pieces) of the imported garments (313,000 batches) fail in the quality and safety inspection with a non-compliance rate of 5.87%, reducing by 1.62% compared with the previous year. There are 1,045 cases failing in fibre contents according for 54.37% for the non-compliance.
 
In 2015, the Authorities inspected 16,800 batches of imported disposable sanitary products worth of USD 737 billion, achieving a year-on-year increase of 2.47% in batches and a decrease of 3.04% in goods value. The products include disposable diapers, wet wipes, feminine care products imported from Japan, South Korea, the United States, Canada, EU, southeast Asia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other countries or regions. The Authorities found 3,999 batches of such products did not comply with provisions with relevant requirements (rate of non-compliance 23.9%), which can result from lack of or non-compliant Chinese identification, failure in microbiological indexes, broken packaging and lack of certification or toxicology report.
 
The Authorities have returned or destroyed the above products violates safety and hygiene standards. C&K Testing advises importers should send products for testing prior to import to China.