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The Community Oeko-Tex updates his criteria of control for 2013
09/01/2013
9 January 2013
The Community Oeko-Tex has updated at the beginning of year, as it comes being usual, the criteria of control and value them limit of the certification of product according to the Oeko-Tex Standard 100. After a term of transition of three months, on 1 April 2013 will go in in force the following new regulations for all the formalities of certification:
- En el futuro, in the textile products envoys for the certification will analyse also eight aromatic hydrocarbons polycyclic (HAP) additional. In the class of products I will reduce also the value existent limit for benzo(to)pirenos to 0,5 mg/kg and the value valid total limit up to now for the rest of HAP will recess to 5 mg/kg.
- In view of the classification like substance especially worrisome (substance SVHC) according to the legislation Reach, the N, N-dimethylformamide (DMF) includes in the list of dissolvent reglamentados. It applies a value limit of the 0,1 %.
- Besides, en el futuro will analyse also in all the samples the content of three ftalatos additional harmful for the health, since these have been classified partly also like substances SVHC or are included in the ‘Registry of Intentions' of Reach. You value them total limit of the 0,1 % for the class of products I or the classes of products II to IV remain invariable.
- With base to the restriction established in the annex XVII of the Regulation Reach, the dimetilfumarato will appear listed en el futuro in the list of residual chemical products reglamentados by Oeko-Tex like additional substance with a value limit of 0,1 mg/kg, and will be analysed in notable articles.
- Conditioned by the modification in the European norm to determine the permeabilidad and the release of nickel, will adjust value them limit for nickel extraíble in the four classes of products Oeko-Tex. The new value valid limit for the class of products I from now are 0,5 mg/kg; 1,0 mg/kg for the classes of products II to IV.
- The already entered regulation at the beginning of 2012 for the certification of products according to the Oeko-Tex Standard 100 for nonilfenol, octilfenol and alquilfenoles etoxilatos, will apply now of form vinculante from 1 April 2013 for all the certifications of products according to the Oeko-Tex Standard 100.
- Now apply the following value limit: total of octilfenol (OP) and nonilfenol (NP) = 50 mg/kg (corresponds to a 0,005 % of the mass): total of octilfenol, nonilfenol, octilfenoles (1-2) etoxilatos and nonilfenol (1-9) etoxilatos = 500 mg/kg (corresponds to a 0,05 % of the mass).
- With these value limit the Oeko-Tex supports the initiative ‘Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC)'. The sensitisation of the companies involved in the system Oeko-Tex on these hurtful problematic substances for the environingingment contained in half auxiliaries intensifies incidentally for the auditss inside the companies.
- In each certificate Oeko-Tex issued en el futuro will indicate explicitly that the compliance of the marked articles with the label Oeko-Tex checks regularly by means of auditss inside the companies.
