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Legal validation: 15/03/2011
Textile
Labelling
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Product Categories Textile products
Textile products must be labelled or marked whenever they are put onto the market for sale to consumers. The names, descriptions and details of textile fibre content must be indicated on products offered for sale to consumers. A textile product composed of two or more components which have different compositions must bear a label stating the fibre content of each component. Ireland has adopted EU regulations on labelling of textile products. EU regulations on textile products applies to (...) Read more
Be aware of the properties of textiles by reading the labels
Into: Product Safety Product Categories Textile products
Designers and manufacturers must identify and reduce any possible hazards in manufacture so products are safe for consumers to use. Products that may cause a hazard, such as a fire risk, must carry labels with flammability warnings. In the case of some textile products (e.g. those used in extreme sports) fitness-for-purpose and quality of manufacture can be a matter of life or death. © European Union, 2010 Reproduction of DOLCETA is authorised provided the source is acknowledged (...) Read more
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Citizens Information - Standards for Product Labelling Read more
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Into: Product Safety Dangerous imitations Products resembling other products Products that can be confused with other products
Unfortunately, every consumer product can be counterfeited, and many often are. Some examples of the types of products that are regularly counterfeited are: Branded clothing Spirits Cigarettes Computer games DVD’s CD’s Car parts Drugs Counterfeit products cost less than genuine articles, however, they are usually inferior quality and are a complete waste of money. There are, however, some counterfeits products that as well as being poor value for money are actually very unsafe, often (...) Read more
Examples of recalled products 2010
Into: Product Safety How product safety is ensured! What is a product recall? Recall
Recent Product Recalls in Ireland in 2010 Morphy Richards Double Over Electric Blanket Eazee2 Clean Foaming Drain Cleaner Dorel Maxi-Cosi FamilyFix Travel Log Worldwide Traveller twin pack travel adapter Trendy Look children’s make up sets Infantino SlingRider and Wendy Bellissmo baby slings Toyota Ireland identified problems with accelerator pedal mechanisms Honda Jazz motor vehicles Carino Professional Ionic Hairdryer For a list of the latest product notifications and recalls click (...) Read more
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Treatment of textiles and position of the labels
Into: Product Safety Product Categories Textile products
Labels showing flammability performance and cleaning/ washing instructions must be permanent and securely sewn into the garment. The words may appear in a variety of positions providing that the information is not obscured by any other label or part of the garment. Read more
Nightwear and fire safety
Into: Product Safety Product Categories Textile products
Nightwear can burn rapidly, when accidentally set alight by contact with an open fire or a gas or electric fire or other heat source, and cause serious injury - children and the elderly being especially vulnerable. In 2007 the I.S. EN 14878:2007:2007 Textiles - Burning behaviour of children’s nightwear - Specification was introduced. Many EU states have national regulations in place governing safety provisions for the full range of nightwear garments for babies, children and adults. As (...) Read more
Textiles and UV rays
Into: Product Safety Product Categories Textile products
We rely heavily on clothing to give us protection from the suns harmful ultraviolet radiation (UV rays) but it doesn’t always work. As the ozone that protects us from the worst of the suns damaging rays becomes more depleted it is even more important to ensure our clothing can stand the heat. Different types of clothing can give different levels of protection. Studies have shown that various aspects of a fabric affect the protection it provides against UV rays these include: colour, (...) Read more
Legislation
Into: Product Safety Product Categories Textile products
In Ireland this legislation on the labelling of textiles is transposed as S.I. 485 of 2010 http://www.deti.ie/publications/sis... This legislation transposes Directive 2008/121/EC on textile names (recast) http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ... and also Directive 2009/121/EC on textile names (melanine) http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ.... The recast Directive incorporates all the amendments to the original Textile names Directive 94/74/EC into one instrument while Directive 2009/121/EC (...) Read more
