The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People’s Republic of China (AQSIQ) recently published the inspection results of some sensitive and highly risky imported consumer goods including imported car seats for children, apparels, food contact articles and disposable sanitary products.

Imported Apparels

In 2015, CIQ launched surveillance on 74,877 batches of imported apparels (6.32% more than 2014). Of these, 31,312 batches of imported apparels were tested in the inspection. 1,839 batches were found to be unqualified and failure rate was 5.87% (1.62% less than 2014).

The primary failure items were fiber content, colorfastness, pH value and Chinese labeling.

The failed products mainly imported from US (10.28% of total failure), Korea (7.55%), China (5.17%) and Italy (4.93%).

The inspected apparels were classified into infants’ apparels, children’s apparels, adults’ apparels and other apparels. The failure rate was 7.62% for adults’ apparels, 7.30% for children’s apparels and 6.59% for infants’ apparels.

Imported Car Seats for Children

Car seats for children have been listed as compulsory inspected products since February 1st, 2015.

The China Inspection and Quarantine (CIQ) launched inspections on 1,225 batches of imported car seats for children in 2015, mainly imported from 18 countries or regions including Germany, UK, Japan, USA, France, and Italy. CIQ launched on-site inspections on 1,109 batches (failure rate 19.7%) and lab testing on 92 batches (failure rate 4.35%). Main failure items include unqualified labeling, no Chinese labeling or use instruction, flammability, and dynamic tests.

In the first quarter of 2016, CIQ inspected 240 batches of imported car seats for children and 18 batches were found unqualified. Failure rate was 7.5% which was much lower than 2015. The unqualified products were mainly imported from Germany, Poland and France.

Imported Food Contact Articles

In 2015, national inspection and quarantine institutions launched inspections on 108,000 batches of imported food contact articles (35.7% more than 2014). The product categories include ceramic goods, plastic goods, metal goods, paper goods, household electrical appliances and others.

Of these, 8,331 batches were found to be unqualified and the failure rate was 7.71% that was highest in the past five years. Primary failure items were no Chinese labeling or wrong labeling, safety and hygiene items (including excessive levels of lead and cadmium migration in ceramic, decolorization and excessive levels of evaporation residue and acrylonitrile monomer in plastic, excessive levels of heavy metal migration in metal product, excessive levels of evaporation residue in coating, excessive levels of fluorescence and lead content in paper goods and excessive level of heavy metals in household electrical appliances).

Imported Disposable Sanitary Products

In 2015, CIQ launched inspections on 16,800 batches of disposable sanitary products including baby diapers, baby wipes, sanitary napkins, etc. Products were mainly imported from about 30 countries or regions including Japan, Korea, US, Canada, EU, South Asia, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Of these, 3999 batches were found to be unqualified and failure rate was 23.9%. Primary failure items were labeling, microbe, package and no support document for organic certificate.

Unqualified products have been returned or destroyed by CIQ according to relevant laws and regulations.

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