The development of health-care functional textiles is in desperate need of "quality DNA"

The reporter learned that most of the health-care functional textiles are knitted fabrics. The knitted fabrics have the advantages of comfortable wearing, cool and breathable, and flexible, and are suitable for being widely used in health sportswear, health and leisure T-shirts and health underwear. However, due to the structure of the knitted fabric itself, the health functional textile generally has a problem of poor appearance after washing, poor shape retention after washing, and poor dimensional stability.

"After being bitten by a snake, ten years of fear of a well rope." Inferior health care products have begun to smash the entire health-care textile market, and many consumers are increasingly skeptical about textiles with health-care functions. Quality improvement has become a “difficult problem to be solved” in China's health functional textile industry. In addition, in the "Zhang Wuben incident", we also saw the modern people's attention to physical health and the shortcomings of the domestic health care supervision system.

   "Nano towel" hype

Rapid development, lack of standards, uneven quality levels, exaggerated propaganda, and chaotic price system have become the "adjectives" of China's health functional textiles.

As far as quality is concerned, for most health-care functional textiles, consumers cannot identify them by their own ability. This needs to be achieved through the quality supervision department to strengthen the order of the market, and also requires professional Auxiliary of the institution's instruments and equipment.

"To the dead skin towel, no hair removal, no bacteria, easy to absorb water, 8 yuan a piece, a big loss sale!" In the section of the city of Panyu District, Guangzhou City, the reporter saw this kind of "nano towel" with many health functions . The owner, Mr. Chen, told this reporter that he saw many sellers selling such “nano towels” on Taobao last month. The sales were very hot, and they started to sell in Guangzhou on their own.

The reporter carefully observed a few so-called "nano towels", the feel is really good, but the towel does not indicate the manufacturer, nor the composition of the fiber, the production license and product specifications are not.

"The application of nanotechnology in textiles is not mature. The 'nano towel' is pure speculation, and the merchants are also 'bullying' consumers cannot test the quality." Experts pointed out that there is currently no standard in the country to determine what nano towels are. “Nano-technical materials are mostly used for waterproofing and rubbing resistance, and they are not good for use on towels.”

"Bamboo charcoal clothing" that is difficult to verify

Bamboo charcoal is known as “black diamond” and is known as “the new guardian of environmental protection in the 21st century”. It has a unique honeycomb microporous structure, which makes bamboo charcoal fiber have superior adsorption and ability to emit far infrared rays.

However, the reporter recently found that in fact, many businesses promote the concept of "bamboo charcoal" clothing is very vague. Bamboo charcoal fiber has many excellent characteristics such as odor removal, computerized clothing, and far infrared. However, the reporter found that among the many bamboo charcoal garments, the products that can clearly identify the origin of bamboo charcoal and the firing temperature are at least only one type of "bamboo charcoal underwear." "The product is marked by Taiwan's Meng Zongzhu, which is decomposed by 800 degree high temperature smoldering in traditional earthen kiln, which can effectively adsorb formaldehyde, antibacterial sterilization and release negative ions.

"The adsorption of harmful substances by formaldehyde on bamboo charcoal fiber can be divided into different pore sizes such as macropores, micropores and mesopores. The adsorption capacity of bamboo charcoal fibers with specific pore size for harmful substances is limited, which means that bamboo charcoal cannot adsorb all of them. Gas." Experts told reporters, in addition, bamboo charcoal fiber to achieve anti-radiation effect, must pass the high temperature of 1000 degrees or more, the release of negative ions or not until now no way to verify.

At present, many manufacturers use the name of “bamboo charcoal fiber” for production, but in fact, how much bamboo charcoal fiber is contained in it, or what kind of bamboo charcoal fiber is used, it is difficult to verify. This is also the quality supervision of bamboo charcoal fiber in China. Big gap.

Health textile complaints rose sharply

According to the complaint report released by the China Consumers Association recently, in the first quarter of 2010, more than 130,000 consumer complaints were received across the country, of which quality problems reached more than half, at 56%. Among the industries complained of, the clothing industry was the most, reaching 29.4% of the total. Among them, the number of complaints about health care products (including health-care functional textiles) increased significantly, up 42.1% year-on-year, ranking the top in the increase in complaints.

"People's living standards have improved, and their investment in health care has also increased significantly. In particular, many elderly people who are frail or have chronic diseases rely on health-care textiles as their own treatment and Johnson, but the results are often unsatisfactory. The quality of the products is not good, and some also add a lot of prohibited ingredients." Experts pointed out that although the disease can not be treated, but this textile can also be beneficial to the regulation of human body function, with far infrared, radiation, magnetic, antibacterial function A series of effects.

In the view of Zhou Bangyong, deputy secretary-general of the China Health Care Association, the current serious problem in the health functional textile market is the lack of standards. He pointed out that among the more than ten kinds of functions such as antibacterial, negative ion, anti-radiation, anti-thrombosis, magnetic function, far-infrared and anti-varicose veins claimed by the manufacturers, only functional textiles such as magnetic health care, far-infrared and antibacterial health care have the association standard. There are no standards for the claimed features, let alone national standards.

The head of marketing of a health-care textile manufacturer in Guangzhou told China Fiber Inspection. “In order to avoid competition with traditional cotton and chemical fiber clothing, our company will focus on 'health card' this year, and seize more with new products. The market. At present, textiles with health-care functions have begun to expand into many fields such as health, environmental protection, medical care, chemicals, and nanotechnology.

In 2015 , there were 200 billion markets for health care textiles.

"In 2009, China has become the world's second largest consumer of functional textiles after the United States. The total annual sales reached US$13.4 billion, second only to the US$14.7 billion, and is growing at a rate of 20% per year." On May 30, 2010, the data provided by Zhou Bangyong at the China Health Care Functional Textiles Status and Development Summit Forum jointly organized by the China Health Care Association and the China Knitting Industry Association.

At present, health functional textiles, as part of health care products alongside health foods, have exceeded market share in health foods. "In 2015, the market size of health functional textiles will reach 200 billion yuan." Zhou Bangyong predicted.

According to the reporter, Japan's health functional textiles accounted for 39% of all textiles, and the United States was 28%. The proportion of China is still small and the market prospect is very broad.

According to the definition of “Healthy Functional Textiles CAS 115-2005” by the China Health Care Association in October 2006, health-care functional textiles have health functions such as emitting far-infrared rays, generating magnetic fields, and anti-bacterial functions, aiming to regulate and improve the functions of the body. A type of textile that is intended to treat diseases and does not cause any toxic side effects to the human body.

There are many varieties of health functional textiles. As far as clothing is concerned, there are hundreds of health-care functional textiles, such as shirts, sanitary wares, busts, underpants, sportswear, underwear (autumn and winter suits, body, warmth), T-shirts, shorts, pajamas, t-shirts, maternity clothes, Business wear, etc.

Experts pointed out that while counterfeit and shoddy is full of, some textile products that have excellent health effects are "hidden in the depths of everyone." On the one hand, because it does not have a close to the people, on the other hand, it is too high-tech, so that even the sales staff themselves are not clear. Industry companies are in desperate need of “high-quality sipping”, which is based on systematic training for corporate sales people so that they can introduce products to consumers in easy-to-understand language.

“Because health-care textiles have certain scientific and technological content and health effects, they not only meet the needs of wearing, but also meet the needs of health. Therefore, the price is higher than traditional textiles. It is understandable.” Zhou Bangyong believes that the cooperation between the upper, middle and lower reaches It is the cornerstone of the benign development of health-care textiles, that is, the interaction of “materials, beauty and Tao”. The upstream responsibility is to ensure the safety and efficiency of raw materials; the midstream is the manufacture of fashionable and comfortable products; the downstream is to explore new marketing channels and techniques, and implement the famous brand strategy.

Yao Mu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, pointed out that the knitting industry and health functional textiles have made outstanding achievements in raw material innovation, technological innovation, special equipment innovation, design innovation, functional innovation, humanistic concept innovation, brand and management innovation. Especially in the innovation of practical functions, knitted fabrics and knitwear have embarked on the road.

Related links: Health functional textiles promotion "with specifications"

In June 2009, the China Health Care Association issued the “Regulations on the Health and Functioning Textile Industry Standardization”, which clearly banned the use of terms such as “treatment of diseases”.

First, the definition

1 , health functional textiles

It refers to a type of textile that has the functions of transmitting far-infrared rays, generating magnetic field functions, antibacterial functions, etc., and is intended to regulate and improve the functions of the body, does not treat diseases, and does not cause any toxic side effects to the human body.

Health-care functional textiles currently only regulate the far-infrared health functional textiles, magnetic health functional textiles, and antibacterial health functional textiles. There are no standard specifications for other functions claimed by enterprises. In 2009, the association will conduct clinical trials and standardization of health-care functional textiles such as anti-electromagnetic radiation and negative ions, and continue to conduct industry management.

2 , far infrared health functional textiles

It refers to a textile product that loads high-efficiency far-infrared emitting materials, acts on the human body through the far-infrared emission, generates thermal effects, and has a health-care function that improves microcirculation.

3 , magnetic health functional textiles

It refers to a textile product that loads magnetic material and acts on human body cell metabolism, blood circulation, nerve regulation, etc. through the physical energy of the magnetic field to improve the local microcirculation and strengthen the local tissue nutrition and oxygen supply.

4 , antibacterial health functional textiles

It refers to a textile product that is loaded with antibacterial materials and uses its self-acting physicochemical properties to achieve a clean and hygienic effect by killing, inhibiting or hindering the growth and reproduction of microorganisms.

Second, standardize the propaganda language

1 , far infrared health function textile propaganda standard language

The far-infrared wavelength range of this product is between 4μm and 16μm; the normal emissivity is not less than 0.80 (or measured value); the normal emissivity is not less than 0.08 (or measured value); the normal emissivity is increased after 30 washings. The value is not less than 0.06 (or measured value); the increase of blood flow of microcirculation in animal experiments is not less than 50% (or measured value), and the evaluation index of biological tissue microcirculation perfusion improvement has obvious statistical significance;

2 , magnetic health functional textiles

The magnetic induction intensity of the surface of the magnet fabric of this product is 40mT～110mT (400Gs～1100Gs) (or measured value); the peripheral parts of the eye such as eye mask, the magnetic induction intensity of the surface of the magnet fabric is 40mT～70mT (400Gs～1100Gs) (or measured value); The number and distribution of magnets are scientific and reasonable;

3 , antibacterial health functional textiles

The antibacterial rate of this product before washing is: the inhibition rate of Staphylococcus aureus is “≥90%” (or measured value), the inhibition rate of Escherichia coli is “≥90%” (or measured value); “washing 20 times "Antibacterial rate: Staphylococcus aureus bacteriostasis rate of "≥80%" (or measured value), Escherichia coli bacteriostatic rate of "≥70%" (or measured value).