China – GB 30585-2024: Safety technical specifications for infants’ and Children’s footwear will come into effective June 1, 2025

Vol. 1414 | 25 Jul 2024

The Standardization Administration of China has announced that GB 30585-2024 “Safety technical specifications for infants’ and children’s footwear” will come into effect on June 1, 2025. This standard applies to footwear products made from various materials, intended for children and infants aged 14 years or below.

The main changes between the new and old standards are as follows:

• Expanded the scope of application.
• Added the terms and definitions.
• Deleted the requirements and test methods for “shank”, “Odour”.
• Changed the requirements for “Small accessories on infants' footwear” and correlative test method.
• Changed the requirements and test methods for Cr (VI), formaldehyde.
• Added the requirements and test methods for artificial leather and synthetic leather in the item of carcinogenic aromatic amine dyestuffs.
• Added the requirements and test methods for chlorinated phenols, short-chain chlorinated paraffins.
• Changed the test methods for broken needle, N-nitrosamine.
• The requirements for restricted chemical substances are specified according to the category of materials.

Article 5 of the standard specifies the mandatory safety requirements for infants’ and children’s footwear. The specific requirements are as below.

1. Product classification:
   • Infants' footwear: Footwear not larger than 170 mm in size, intended to be worn by an infant aged 3 years or below.
   • Children's footwear: Footwear larger than 170 mm in size, intended to be worn by a child aged 3 years to 14 years old.
2. General requirements

   Table 1

   No.	ITEM	REQUIREMENTS
   1	Broken needle	There shall be no broken needle inside or outside of footwear.
   2	Accessible sharp edge/point	There shall be no accessible sharp edge/point sharp inside or outside of footwear, except for functional spikes of children's footwear such as athletic track/football shoes, etc.
   3	Technical (effective) heel height	The technical heel height shall not be greater than 25 mm.

3. Small accessories on infants' footwear

   Table 2

   No.	ITEM	REQUIREMENTS
   1	Small parts test	The removable small accessories shall not be able to fit completely into the small parts test cylinder.
   2	Tension test	Small accessories that fall off after the specified tension test (including the attachment fragments that fall off during the tension test and the accessories that fall off together with the upper material) shall not have a sharp edge and sharp point that can be accessible and shall not be able to fit completely into the small parts test cylinder. Small accessories that are damaged after tension test but do not fall off shall not have sharp edges and sharp points that can be accessible.
   Remark: Small parts test and tension test is not appliable to small accessories such as pile, fiber filling material, textile (including nonwovens), yarn, elastic fabric and string on shoes.

4. Restricted chemical substances

   Table 3

   No.	ITEM	MATERIAL	UNIT	REQUIREMENTS
   1	Hexavalent chromium (Cr (VI))	Leather, fur	mg/kg	≤3
   2	Carcinogenic aromatic amine dyestuffs	Textile	mg/kg	≤20
   		Artificial leather, synthetic leather	mg/kg	≤30
   		Leather, fur	mg/kg	≤30
   3	Formaldehyde	Textile, artificial leather, synthetic leather, leather fur	mg/kg	Infants' footwear: ≤20 Directly contact to skin: ≤75 Without directly contact to skin: ≤300
   4	Heavy metal	Material with coating (printing), artificial leather, synthetic leather, rubber, plastic, and other synthetic materials	mg/kg	Pb ≤90 Cd ≤100
   5	Dimethyl fumarate	Textile, artificial leather, synthetic leather, leather, fur	mg/kg	≤0.1
   6	Chlorinated phenols	Textile, artificial leather, synthetic leather	mg/kg	Pentachlorophenol (PCP) ≤0.5 2,3,5,6-Tetrachlorophenol (TeCP) ≤0.5
   		Leather, fur	mg/kg	Pentachlorophenol ≤0.5
   7	N-nitrosamine	Rubber parts	mg/kg	Infants' footwear: ≤0.5
   8	Phthalates	Material with coating (printing), artificial leather, synthetic leather, rubber, plastic, and other synthetic materials	%	Infants' footwear: Total content of DINP, DIDP, DNOP ＜0.1 Total content of DEHP, DBP, BBP, DIBP ＜0.1
   				Children's footwear: Total content of DEHP, DBP, BBP, DIBP ＜0.1
   9	SCCP (Short-chain chlorinated paraffins) C10~C13	Textile, artificial leather, synthetic leather, leather, fur, rubber, plastic, and other synthetic materials	%	＜0.15
   Remark 1: Material of accessible parts shall be test. Remark 2: Generally, the lining and insock (insole) are materials that directly contact to skin, upper and outsole are materials do not directly contact to skin. If there is no lining and insock (insole) in the shoe, upper or outsole is material that directly contact to skin.

   Table A List of carcinogenic aromatic amines

   No.	Name	CAS No.
   1	4-aminobiphenyl	92-67-1
   2	benzidine	92-87-5
   3	4-chloro-o-toluidine	95-69-2
   4	2-naphthylamine	91-59-8
   5	o-aminoazotoluene	97-56-3
   6	2-amino-4-nitrotoluene	99-55-8
   7	p-chloroaniline	106-47-8
   8	2,4-diaminoanisole	615-05-4
   9	4,4′-diaminobiphenylmethane	101-77-9
   10	3,3′-dichlorobenzidine	91-94-1
   11	3,3′-dimethoxybenzidine	119-90-4
   12	3,3′-dimethylbenzidine	119-93-7
   13	3,3′-dimethyl-4,4′-diaminobiphenylmethane	838-88-0
   14	p-cresidine	120-71-8
   15	4,4′-methylene-bis-(2-chloroaniline)	101-14-4
   16	4,4′-oxydianiline	101-80-4
   17	4,4′-thiodianiline	139-65-1
   18	o-toluidine	95-53-4
   19	2,4-toluylenediamine	95-80-7
   20	2,4,5-trimethylaniline	137-17-7
   21	o-anisidine	90-04-0
   22	2,4-xylidine	95-68-1
   23	2,6-xylidine	87-62-7
   24	4-aminoazobenzene	60-09-3

   Table B List of prohibited N-nitrosamines in rubber parts

   No.	Name	CAS No.
   1	N-nitroso dimethylamine (NDMA)	62-75-9
   2	N-nitroso diethylamine (NDEA)	55-18-5
   3	N-nitroso dipropylamine (NDPA)	621-64-7
   4	N-nitroso dibutylamine (NDBA)	924-16-3
   5	N-nitroso piperidine (NPIP)	100-75-4
   6	N-nitroso pyrrolidine (NPYR)	930-55-2
   7	N-nitroso morpholine (NMOR)	59-89-2
   8	N-nitroso-N-methylanilne (NMPhA)	614-00-6
   9	N-nitroso-N-ethylanilne (NEPhA)	612-64-6

   Table C Information of restricted phthalate plasticizer

   No.	Name	CAS No.
   1	dibutyl phthalate (DBP)	84-74-2
   2	benzylbutyl phthalate (BBP)	85-68-7
   3	di (2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP)	117-81-7
   4	diisononyl phthalate (DINP)	28553-12-0
   5	di-n-octyl phthalate (DNOP)	117-84-0
   6	diisodecyl phthalate (DIDP)	26761-40-0
   7	diisobutyl phthalate (DIBP)	84-69-5

    According to the Administrative Measures for Mandatory National Standards and GB 30585-2024, the quality control recommendations for footwear are as follows:

   Products produced/ imported date	Implementation date	Intertek suggestion
   Before June 1, 2025	June 1, 2026	From now on, implement new standards to reduce market risks.
   After June 1, 2025	June 1, 2025

 

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