China has issued a new version of its industry standard for knitted casual wear, which came into effect on July 1, 2020.

Published by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, FZ/T 73020-2019 covers products that are primarily manufactured using knitted fabrics. It does not apply to products made for infants aged 36 months or under. 

There are multiple updates in FZ/T 73020-2019, in comparison to the 2012 iteration. Alterations include:

• Instructions that children’s product use must comply with a specified clause in GB 31701
• Terms and definitions for mini shorts and fluorescence color
• Labeling rules for sizes beyond the standard
• Applicable scope for the colorfastness of natural color or bleached fabrics
• Assessment for results and single sample
• Colorfastness for linings
• Test items for appearance after washing
• Requirements and test methods for the staining degree of soap solution
• Requirements covering colorfastness to light for apparel in fluorescence color

The new standard contains adjustments to:

• Normative references
• Requirements for colorfastness to rubbing, light, dry-cleaning, and light of textiles wetted with artificial perspiration
• Requirements covering pilling
• Requirements covering spirality for tops after laundering
• Measurement description for spirality after laundering

Revisions include:

• Applicable scope
• Test method for colorfastness to transfer in joints
• Sewing requirements
• Specification of sampling number

The new standard has removed:

• Net dry content requirement for fiber content
• Annex A of FZ/T 73020-2012
• Requirements for dresses and short skirts
• Requirements for colorfastness for prints and pyrographics

The standard contains technical requirements relating to:

• Appearance: defects, dimension tolerance, dimension difference in symmetrical position, and sewing requirements
• Internal quality: fiber content, formaldehyde content, pH value, odor, decomposable carcinogenic aromatic amines, bursting strength, pilling, dimension change after laundering, dimension change after dry-cleaning, spirality after laundering, appearance after laundering, and multiple requirements relating to colorfastness

Stakeholders are advised to now check their knitted casual wear conforms to the latest version of FZ/T 73020.

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China’s new industry standard for knitted garments and accessories for infants came into effect on July 1, 2020. Issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, FZ/T 73025-2019 replaces the 2013 iteration and contains multiple revisions.

FZ/T 73025-2019 applies to clothing accessories aimed at infants that are primary made from knitted fabrics. Products that fall under the scope of this standard include underwear, outwear, sleepwear, all-in-ones, bellybands, trousers, hosiery, foot straps, caps, gloves, bibs, aprons, scarves, swaddle wraps, quilts, sleeping bags, and bedding.

The latest version of the standard adds:

• Applicable scope for the colorfastness of natural color or bleached fabrics
• Specification for “packaging of the textile products for infants and children should not be allowed to apply needles and other metal sharp objects”
• Applicable scope for colorfastness in joints
• Applicable scope for pilling properties
• Applicable scope for the water-vapor transmission rate
• Applicable scope for appearance after washing
• Technical requirements for heavy metal content, phthalate content, attached components, filling materials, pilling, appearance after washing, water-vapor transmission rate, down-proof property of down garments
• Note 2 in Table 1 on the definition of elastic fabrics
• Note 3 in Table 1 on the recommendations for infant products

There are also adjustments relating to:

• Technical requirements in the standard’s Table 1
• Grade assessment of appearance defects
• Requirements for dimension difference in symmetrical position
• Requirements for dimension tolerance
• Technical requirements for dimensional change after washing, colorfastness in joints and some colorfastness items

The new version of the standard also has revisions to:

• Applicable scope
• Normative references
• Reference specification in instructions for use
• Applicable scope for extractable heavy metal content
• Test method for colorfastness in joints
• Applicable scope for dimension change after laundering
• Condition for appearance quality inspection
• Terms for knitted garments and accessories for infants
• Specifications for raw materials

The new standard has removed:

• Specification on “flame retardant finish of infants textile products is not recommended”
• Specification on “Do not test sewing strength of press snap button and spring snap button”
• Specification on stitch density
• Annex A of FZ/T 73025-2013

The standard contains technical requirements relating to:

• Appearance: defects, dimension tolerance, dimension difference in symmetrical position, raw materials and sewing requirements
• Internal quality: fiber content, formaldehyde content, pH value, odor, decomposable carcinogenic aromatic amines, heavy metal content, phthalate content, flammability, filling materials, attached components, extractable heavy metal content, dimension change after laundering, appearance after laundering, water-vapor transmission rate, the remains of broken sewing needles, down-proof property of down garments, pilling, tensile strength of strap, and multiple requirements relating to colorfastness

Stakeholders are advised to now check their knitted garments and accessories for infants comply with the latest version of FZ/T 73025.

SGS Softlines Services

SGS has a worldwide network of over 40 state-of-the-art laboratories specializing in testing of apparel, footwear, and home textiles. Their committed team is drawn from multi-disciplinary backgrounds, allowing them to carry out a comprehensive range of physical, chemical, and functional testing services for components, materials and finished products. SGS helps companies ensure quality, performance, and compliance with international, industrial, and regulatory standards worldwide. Learn more about SGS’s Softlines Services.

SGS SafeGuardS keep you up to date with the latest news and developments in the consumer goods industry. Read the full China Releases an updated Product Standard FZ/T 73025-2019 (Knitted Garments and Accessories for Infants) SafeGuardS. 

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While 2020 is shaping up as the year to forget for many businesses, Australian-owned and operated ‘skincare disruptor’ Wrinkles Schminkles has recorded its biggest year yet, increasing growth by 100 percent for the third year running, boosting repeat purchases by 47 percent and securing a lucrative TV Shopping deal in North America – all in the middle of a global pandemic.

Founder Gabrielle Requena created Wrinkles Schminkles in 2014, when she saw a gap in the market for a non-invasive solution to chest wrinkles. 

In 2019 Requena launched Wrinkles Schminkles on TV shopping networks in North America, the UK and Russia, as well as securing a coveted regular spot on Australia’s own TVSN.

Just before COVID-19 hit, Wrinkles Schminkles had participated in three major invitation-only beauty events on Good Morning America and The View. These spots are highly competitive and resulted in stock sell-outs within 12 hours for the best-selling Forehead Smoothing Kit RRP $42.00 and Eye Smoothing Kit RRP $42.00, as frustrated American’s were unable to get their usual anti-wrinkles injections.

During this time, the brand also sold-out globally of its Hand Smoothing Kit RRP $42.00, as hand-washing and hand sanitiser use increased exponentially and consumers were looking for ways to soothe and hydrate their hands.

Subsequently, Wrinkles Schminkles’ repeat purchases jumped from 19 percent in 2018 to 33 percent in 2019 and whopping 66 percent for the first half of 2020. Requena forecasts repeat purchases will hit 90 percent by the end of 2020. 

In May, Requena secured a deal with North America’s largest regional TV Shopping syndication company and will launch two new lines to an audience of more than 320 million people with a voracious appetite for innovative anti-ageing products.

Wrinkles Schminkles now has warehouses in Sydney, Texas and London to service the brand’s expanding global markets which currently includes 40 countries.

The company’s growth has been self-funded, helped by Requena’s lean operating model that includes a global team of part-time staff and a true WFH approach that not only eliminates expensive overheads but gives the business a running start when dealing with the effect that social distancing laws now have on the workplace.

COVID-19 has provided its share of challenges for Wrinkles Schminkles which include the forced closure of stockists in the salon and clinic channel, the postponing of some large scale events and the international travel ban which prohibits Requena’s successful TV Shopping sales appearances in other markets. 

However, what has been a strong silver lining, is a huge spike in direct online consumer sales from women with an immediate desire to upgrade their at-home skincare routines and to seek out new solutions to combat the absence of their much-loved injectables and other in-clinic treatments.

About Wrinkles Schminkles

Wrinkles Schminkles is an affordable, effective and non-invasive anti-ageing skincare range that includes reusable 100% Medical Grade Silicone patches especially designed to treat the chest, eyes, forehead, neck, mouth and hands. 

Recommended by doctors, plastic surgeons and beauty professionals, these silicone patches produce immediate results after the first nights use as well as cumulative results overtime. The brand now includes technology driven luxurious sheet masks with more innovation soon to launch.

Notes to editor

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The Worldwide Message of Love by Music Executive Veronica Vitale and French Fashion Designer Philippe Vallés.

Saint-Estève, France | June 16th, 2020 -- A true love story: founded in 2017 by Fashion designer Louis-Philippe Vallès, la Vague d'Amour is a brand created in order to carry a universal message of true love around the world. Mr.Vallés is the mind behind the famous "wave-shaped bracelet" a message of universal love: to connect, to come together in order to transmit, give and share all together. Wavy and colorful, these bracelets represent the ups and downs of life. Symbolically, while wearing them, you can make 3 wishes, one for yourself, one for the person who receives it as gift and another for the planet. - "By founding the Wave of Love, I wanted to create a real surge of generosity: it materializes in bracelets in the form of waves and pretty t-shirts which help to finance associations and transmit a message of love" - said Louis-Philippe.

The Founder of the "Wave of Love" meets Artist and Executive Producer Dr. Veronica Vitale, one fine day on Instagram. Veronica Vitale has recently founded the Movement "Artist United - heart like never before" with her husband American Film Director Patrick Hamilton as relief platform in response to COVID-19 for all artists around the world to come together as one for hope and universal brotherhood during Humanitarian Crises and Hardships. Veronica's dream chapter about humanity has started back in 2013, as she worked with twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize Dr. Ervin Laszlo in the field of Quantum Physics and Global Macro Shift. Veronica Vitale holds three university degrees and a Ph.d in evolutionary systems scientist and is known in her industry as a catalyst for change.

Veronica Vitale brought together thousand people in a matter of days, and recently released a song ("Hymn To Humanity" Choir Edition) performed by over 250 voices from Africa, to China, Tanzania, Croatia, Russia, Pakistan, Congo, from Afghanistan, to Australia and Italia, to the Chief Shuar Amazon of Ecuador, and sung in almost every main spoken language in the world. The Song Veronica Vitale composed is to be considered a successful Anthem to Earth and Humakind. One of a kind.

The love project "Vallés - Vitale" aims to support this young movement by producing a special edition t-shirt that links the two brands "La Vague d'Amour" and "Artist United" together as one. Every t-shirt will carry the quote "More Love in the World" translated in every native language and shipped to every Artist who sung the Hymn to Humanity composed by Veronica Vitale. The special edition t-shirt will travel to every country and it is wholeheartedly donated by Mr. Louis-Philippe Vallés.

"I thought to involve Mr. Vallés in this project because he is a sensitive soul like myself. I would like to hire his company in the future to produce a specific fashion line for my own brand and upcoming album as soon as the consequences Covid-19 has caused to the independent industries" - says Veronica.

As Matter of fact, Executive Producer Veronica Vitale and French Fashion Designer Louis-Philipps Vallés are to be considered two modern Peace Builders in their own industry. "A burst of light over the dusk above the human pain" as the Hymn to Humanity's lyrics says.

Press & Media Contact:
Visionary Vanguard
Artist United Division
+4045197213
https://www.vaguedamour.com