On 12 November 2013, China?s General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) and the National Standardization Management Committee published the No. 22 Standard Notice of 2013.
This notice stated that the newly published national standard GB/T 29862-2013 Textiles ? Identification of fibre content will become effective on 1 May 2014. This standard is a revision and an update of the FZ/T 01053-2007 Textiles ? Identification of fibre content.
A comparison table between FZ/T01053-2007 and GB/T29862-2013 is summarized within the latest SafeGuardS bulletin.
Information on textile fibre content labeling
Annex B of FZ/T 01053-2007 was the translation of ISO 2076:1999 Textiles ? Synthetic fibre. In GB/T 29862-2013. The new standard has deleted the reference to Annex B of FX/T 01053-2007 changes have been made to the labeling examples of other fibres or materials.
The detailed information is as follows:
> For composite fibres including two or more types of polymer components, use the following format and the names specified in GB/T 4146.1 to label the fibre name. List each component name composite fibre. Different components are separated by ?/?. Example:
* 60 per cent cotton;
* 40 per cent polyester/nylon composite fibre.
> For fibre which is modified by adding chemicals (component) to change the original fibre property labeling should include the name of the added component modified the name of the original fibre. Example: 100 per cent protein modified polyvinyl alcohol fibre.
> For the fibre which is composed of between 50-80 per cent by mass of linear acrylic macromolecule in the molecule chain, it should be labeled as ?modacrylic?.