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Bad dye in Wal-Mart clothing
By Li Qian |
September 21, 2012, Friday
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US-BASED Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, has been accused of selling children's clothing containing a carcinogenic dye in its chain stores in Shenzhen City in southern China's Guangdong Province.
A former Wal-Mart clothing supplier surnamed Sun found in August a brand of children's wear on the shelf in the Xixiang store emitting a strong odor, and suspected the clothes were of poor quality. He then asked the Shenzhen Academy of Metrology and Quality Inspection to check, and the result confirmed his suspicion, showing decomposable aromatic amine dyes, a banned material in clothing, in the clothes, Shenzhen Economic Daily reported yesterday.
The product came from a children's clothing factory in the province's Dongguan City.
The paper found the same clothing on sale in another local store for 30 yuan (US$4.76), nearly 20 yuan off the original price.
Wal-Mart has not responded to the accusations.
The company's Shanghai subsidiary told Shanghai Daily that similar cases never happened in the city since stores followed strict procedures to test the products' quality before placing them on the shelf.
Children's clothing, including some under such popular labels as Zara and Disney, has been found to fail tests of color fastness, formaldehyde content and pH index.
"Some factories have poor techniques of production and shabby facilities, while some just want to make money without considering the harm to children," said Jiang Yanxiang, a textile engineer.
A former Wal-Mart clothing supplier surnamed Sun found in August a brand of children's wear on the shelf in the Xixiang store emitting a strong odor, and suspected the clothes were of poor quality. He then asked the Shenzhen Academy of Metrology and Quality Inspection to check, and the result confirmed his suspicion, showing decomposable aromatic amine dyes, a banned material in clothing, in the clothes, Shenzhen Economic Daily reported yesterday.
The product came from a children's clothing factory in the province's Dongguan City.
The paper found the same clothing on sale in another local store for 30 yuan (US$4.76), nearly 20 yuan off the original price.
Wal-Mart has not responded to the accusations.
The company's Shanghai subsidiary told Shanghai Daily that similar cases never happened in the city since stores followed strict procedures to test the products' quality before placing them on the shelf.
Children's clothing, including some under such popular labels as Zara and Disney, has been found to fail tests of color fastness, formaldehyde content and pH index.
"Some factories have poor techniques of production and shabby facilities, while some just want to make money without considering the harm to children," said Jiang Yanxiang, a textile engineer.
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