China Issues Mandatory Product Standard for Infant and Children’s Footwear – GB 30585-2024

SafeGuardSSoftlinesJuly 10, 2024

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GB 30585-2024 – Safety technical specifications for infants' and children's footwear – was released on May 28, 2024, and will become effective on June 1, 2025.

On May 28, 2024, the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China (PRC) issued mandatory product standard GB 30585-2024 – Safety technical specifications for infants' and children's footwear – which will become effective on June 1, 2025.

GB 30585-2024 replaces the previous edition, GB 30585-2014.

The new version of this document is applicable to footwear products made of various materials for children and infants up to and including the age of 14 years.

Main Technical Changes

Revisions to GB 30585-2024 cover:

Scope
Terms and definitions
Requirements for infants’ shoe accessories
Requirements and testing methods for chromium VI
Requirements and test methods for the banned azo colorants (AZO)
Requirements and testing methods for the formaldehyde
Requirement for total heavy metal content
Requirement for dimethyl fumarate (DMFu)
Test method for N-nitrosamine
Requirements and testing methods for phthalates
Testing methods for broken needle
Appendix C for phthalate list

Additions include:

Requirements and testing methods for chlorophenol
Requirements and testing methods for short chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCP)
Appendix A for Banned azo colorants list

Deletions include:

Requirements and testing methods for shoe shanks
Requirements and testing methods for odor
Appendix A for examples for classification of partial accessories
Appendix D for test method for tensile strength of accessories

Main technical requirements of GB 30585-2024 < Safety technical specifications for infants' and children's footwear >

No.	Item	Test Method	Requirement
1.	Broken needles	GB 30585-2024, 6.1	Shoes should not contain any broken needles
2.	Accessible sharp edge and sharp point	GB 6675.2-2014,5.8&5.9	Shoes should have no accessible sharp edges or sharp point, except for functional studs on outsole such as athletic shoes and football shoes
3.	Effective heel height	GB 30585-2024, 6.3	≤25 mm
4.	Small accessories of infants’ shoe	GB 6675.2-2014,5.2&5.24.6.1	1. Removable small accessories should not be small enough to fit entirely within small parts cylinder in any orientation 2. Small accessories that have detached after the specified tensile test (including parts that have detached during the tensile test) should not have accessible sharp edges or sharp point, and should not be small enough to fit entirely within small parts cylinder in any orientation 3. Damaged but not detached small accessories after tensile testing should not have accessible sharp edges or point
5.	Chromium VI	GB/T 22807 or GB/T 38402	Leather, fur ≤3 mg/kg
6.	Banned azo colourants	GB/T 17592	Textile ≤20 mg/kg Synthetic leather ≤30 mg/kg
	Banned azo colourants	GB/T 19942	Leather, fur ≤ 30 mg/kg
7.	Formaldehyde	GB/T 2912.1	Textile, synthetic leather: Infants’ footwear ≤20 mg/kg Direct contact with skin ≤75 mg/kg Non direct contact with skin ≤300 mg/kg
	Formaldehyde	GB/T 19941.1 or GB/T 19941.2	Leather, fur: Infants’ footwear ≤20 mg/kg Direct contact with skin ≤75 mg/kg Non direct contact with skin ≤300 mg/kg
8.	Total heavy metal content	QB/T 4340	Coated (printed) materials, synthetic leather, synthetic materials such as rubber and plastic: Pb ≤90 mg/kg Cd ≤100 mg/kg
9.	Dimethyl fumarate	GB/T 26713	Textile, synthetic leather, leather, fur ≤0.1 mg/kg
10.	Chlorinated phenols	GB/T 18414.1	Textile, synthetic leather: PCP ≤0.5 mg/kg 2,3,5,6-TeCP ≤0.5 mg/kg
	Chlorinated phenols	GB/T 22808	Leather, Fur: PCP ≤0.5 mg/kg
11.	N-nitrosamine	ISO 19577:2019	Rubber parts of infants’ shoe ≤0.5 mg/kg
12.	Phthalate	GB/T 32440.1	Coated (printed) materials, synthetic leather, synthetic materials such as rubber and plastic Infants’ footwear: Σ (DINP, DIDP, DNOP) <0.1% Σ (DEHP, DBP, BBP, DIBP) <0.1% Children's footwear: Σ (DEHP, DBP, BBP, DIBP) <0.1%
13.	Short chain chlorinated paraffins	GB/T 40263	Textiles <0.15%
	Short chain chlorinated paraffins	GB/T 38405	Synthetic leather, leather, fur <0.15%
	Short chain chlorinated paraffins	SN/T 3814	Synthetic materials such as rubber and plastic <0.15%

Details of The Technical Content

For more information, please refer to the standard, GB 30585-2024 – Safety technical specifications for infants' and children's footwear – or contact SGS directly.

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