Children’s Garments and Accessories: Safety and Quality Verification
UL helps you make sure you deliver products that meet the highest level of safety and quality.
Safety and quality verification services to protect our children
The decorative details common in children’s garments and accessories increase the risk of safety concerns. UL helps deliver products that meet the highest level of safety and quality.
A Global Approach to Safety and Quality
Children’s apparel containing buttons, cords, beading, appliques, snaps, zippers, rivets, toggles, or trim can become a toy in the hands of an infant or toddler. UL’s safety testing focuses on the prevention of choking hazards due to the ingestion of small parts and the prevention of strangulation or entanglement hazards due to the presence of cords. UL’s team of textile and apparel experts can assess during prototyping and top-of-production whether finished products meet the most stringent standards for safety and quality.
Put Your Products to the Test
Our offerings include:
- Flammability resistance
- Chemical analyses
- Button and snap attachment resistance
- Trim and appliqué attachment resistance
- Sharp points and edges
- Neck opening stretch
- Dimensional stability
PRODUCT CATEGORIES
- Baby feeders
- Bath towels
- Bibs
- Blankets
- Burping cloths
- Sheets
- Shoes
- Washcloths
- Clothing and accessories
Test Methods
UL’s laboratories use recognised methods to test children’s apparel for compliance to brand specifications as well as international regulations and standards including:
- REACH (EU – Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals)
- CPSIA – (U.S. Consumer Product Improvement Safety Act)
- China GB (Chinese National Standards)
- BS (British Standards)
- DIN (German Institute for Standardization)
- EN (European Standard)
A Wide Range of Services to Exceed Your Needs
Recognized for our history and extensive expertise in the safety review and testing of toys, and a deep understanding of child behavior, UL is proficient in providing Risk Assessment Protocols to the children’s apparel industry in response to the need for objective evaluation.
UL provides additional consumer product services, including:
- Design evaluations
- Human factors evaluations
- Reasonable testing programs
- Chemical management programs
- Toxicological risk assessments
- Restricted substances evaluatons