Before a shirt is placed on market, its fabric has undergone various finishing like dyeing and washing, and its button was made from various resin with paints coatings. Each of these processing could contain harmful chemicals which can possibly cause skin allergy, cancer inducer, or leave persistent pollutant to our environment.

While there are so many processing steps, where should you take the first step for chemical assurance?

SGS’s ECO Test Package for Textiles describes the most common restricted substance concern that applies to textile materials, along with basic colorfastness to ensure the dyestuff stays on sample instead of released during wearing.

Common restricted substance concern includes:
– allergy concern: pH value, formaldehyde, allergenic dye, etc.
– cancer-causing concern: azo amines, carcinogenic dye, PAH, etc.
– hormonal disruption: phthalates, APEO, etc.

Unlike physical tests, instead of reviewing based on whole garment, chemical tests are conducted by each material. This is because each material has used different raw materials and has undergone different type of treatment, and hence would have different risk of finding the related chemicals.

While understanding the ready-made garment could be made of various material types, complete product package is also available to ease your budgeting with multiple package needed. SGS will risk-assess the parts present on your product and conduct neccesaary tests.

Please refer to below table for the material description and select the corresponding product type at purchase.

Remark:
Some optional test items are not included in test package, and are upon quotation request based on any extra finishing present in your sample.

For detailed test items, please refer to test plan.