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BSI PD CEN/TS 17394-4:2021

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Textiles and textile products – Safety of children’s clothing. Security of attachment of components except buttons and metal mechanically applied press fasteners. Test method

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The method described in this document complements

  1. EN 17394?2:2020 , Textiles and textile products – Part 2: Safety of children’s clothing – Security of attachment of buttons – Test method

  2. CEN/TS 17394?3:2021 , Textiles and textile products – Part 3: Safety of children’s clothing – Security of attachment of metal mechanically applied press fasteners – Test method

and is applicable to all other components including labels, badges, sequins, rhinestones, rivets, eyelets and non-metal press fasteners, which are too small to be gripped in test equipment jaws or their integrity is disrupted by gripping.

The performance requirements are provided in CEN/TS 17394?1:2021.

The method is an extremely aggressive wash method has been developed to assess if the components remain attached.

It is specifically applicable to clothing, where the detachment of these components might result in accidents to children.

This document does not apply to:

  1. child care articles;

  2. shoes, boots and similar footwear;

  3. toys (see NOTE 2);

  4. other articles sold with clothing.

NOTE 1

The above items are covered by other CEN Technical Committees and as such are out of the scope of this document.

NOTE 2

Disguise costumes including carnival costumes are examples of clothing which are also toys and fall within the scope of the Toy Safety Directive.

PDF Catalog

PDF Pages PDF Title
2 undefined
7 1 Scope
2 Normative references
8 3 Terms and definitions
9 4 Principle
10 5 Sampling
6 Test method
6.1 Apparatus
11 6.2 Materials
6.3 Procedure
6.3.1 Wash temperature and drying method
6.3.1.1 Wash temperature
6.3.1.2 Drying method
6.3.2 Initial assessment of test specimens
6.3.3 Preparation of the washing machine
6.3.4 Wash load
6.3.5 Detergent
6.3.6 Wash cycle
6.3.7 Rinsing and spinning
12 6.3.8 Drying
6.3.9 Final assessment
7 Test report
13 Annex A (normative)Nominal percentage compositon of EN ISO 6330:2012, Annex K non-phosphate reference detergent 3
A.1 General warning
A.2 ECE reference detergent 98 without optical brightener
14 Annex B (informative)Rationale for use of Durawash type machine and not the Type A washing machine, e.g. Wascator, as specified in EN ISO 6330:2012
B.1 Wash action
15 B.2 Installation requirements and environmental considerations
BSI PD CEN/TS 17394-4:2021
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