On July 16, the 2020 “3·15” party was broadcast, with the theme of “Gathering Strength and Building Better Together.” Among them, a lot of shocking content was revealed. Towels are made from old clothes and old socks that have not been sterilized. These unqualified towels, with labels that comply with national standards, are sold throughout the country through small and medium-sized supermarkets, wholesale markets, e-commerce, etc…
Old socks and underwear are actually raw materials for towel production
Gaoyang County, Hebei Province is a country in China The largest towel production base, with an annual output of 5 billion towels, accounting for about one-third of the country’s total. However, the reporter visited Gaoyang and learned that although the towels are marked to comply with national standards, some towels are actually not guaranteed to pass the test.
The reporter learned during the visit that the production lines of local companies are generally divided into two types. One kind of towel can guarantee the inspection, while the other kind of towel can It will be processed with cheap yarn and cannot meet national standards.
A practitioner exposed the secret: “Regular cotton costs more than 16,000 yuan per ton, and the scraps of 14-count yarn are very cheap, but the hair removal rate does not meet the standard. ”
So, what raw materials are used for this yarn and how is it produced?
In Xinliuzuo Village, Gaoyang County, the reporter found a company that specializes in the production of towel yarn. The reporter saw that there was an ingredient pool in the factory production workshop, and the pool contained raw materials for spinning towel yarn. It was still stained with green stains, had a pungent smell, and the impurities inside were clearly visible. Manager Feng told reporters that most of these raw materials are recycled cotton.
The regenerated cotton referred to in the industry refers to the various scraps, rags, threads, etc. from some textile factories that have been recombed and bloomed to become regenerated cotton. Or called recycled cotton, this kind of cotton is nearly twice as cheap as new cotton.
There are many companies in Gaoyang and surrounding areas that produce yarn for towel factories. Each company’s output ranges from a hundred tons to hundreds of tons. So, these recycled cottons are How is it processed?
In Nanjingzhai Village, Handan, Hebei, the raw materials used to produce recycled cotton are shocking. There are mountains of old clothes in the factory, including sweaters, coats, autumn clothes and long trousers, and even worn underwear and socks. Without any sterilization process, after being crushed by a machine and several flowering processes, the old clothes turned into cotton again. At the same time, there are still no warning signs on the product packaging.
These scraps, or even recycled cotton processed from old clothes, are not marked with any product information and The warnings were sold to a yarn factory and made into yarn. The yarn was also sold to a towel factory and eventually made into towels without product information and warnings.
Practitioners in all aspects are well aware of the various problems existing in raw materials.
“Such unqualified towels, labeled with national standards, are sold throughout the country through small and medium-sized supermarkets, wholesale markets, e-commerce, etc.”
A general manager of a textile company told reporters that their annual sales of towels that do not meet the testing standards can reach about 50 million yuan.
The full name of the “Yongliang” towel mentioned in the short film is Hebei Yongliang Textile Co., Ltd. According to the data, the company was punished by the local market supervision bureau in August 2019 for “adulting or adulterating products, passing off fake products as genuine, passing off substandard products as good products, or passing off unqualified products as qualified products”. The amount was only 2,700 yuan, and 300 yuan of illegal property was confiscated.
Gaoyang County Party Committee and County Government deployed overnight to deal with the exposed problems
At 8:00 pm on July 16, after the CCTV Financial Channel 3.15 Party exposed towel and yarn quality problems in Gaoyang, Hebei Province, the Gaoyang County Party Committee and County Government attached great importance to it. They immediately held an emergency meeting and set up a special rectification leading group to address the exposed problems overnight. Arrange deployment.
Organize market supervision, environmental protection, public security, electric power and other departments to immediately carry out inspection operations, seal the companies involved overnight, and seal the problematic products on site. All personnel are under control. A special rectification implementation plan was formulated overnight, and a network-style, full-coverage special rectification campaign for quality and safety was carried out across the county’s towel production enterprises.
The Gaoyang County Party Committee and County Government have zero tolerance for behaviors that harm the rights and interests of consumers. They will strictly prevent and control the safety risks of towel products, actively accept supervision, and the results of rectification and rectification will be announced to the public in a timely manner.
Shocking towels are on the market through e-commerce and live broadcasts
CCTV reporters exposed The towels made of inferior materials produced by Gaoyang involve famous towel brands such as Yongliang and Jiajieli.
The reporter found that shortly after the show was broadcast, e-commerce platforms such as Tmall, Taobao, JD.com, Pinduoduo, and Suning.com quickly blocked the search key for Yongliang towels words. But through the What’s Worth Buying platform, reporters still found traces of Yongliang Towel’s previous activities: there is a Yongliang Home Textile flagship store on Tmall, and JD.com once launched a Yongliang JD self-operated flagship store.
What is worth buying shows that Jiajieli thickened large bath towels were selected into Tmall Selection and Juhuasuan on May 13 and May 9 respectively.
As of press time, Yongliang Home Textiles The flagship store and Jiajieli have been blocked by Tmall. JD.com has removed all products from the Yongliang JD.com self-operated flagship store.
While the e-commerce platform is secretive, consumers I can’t help but wonder why the major e-commerce platforms did not review the problematic towels in advance? And when these towels are sold throughout the country through live broadcasts, who will be responsible for this?
How Yongliang Home Textiles passes e-commerce Censorship?
According to previous screenshots from Tmall Mall, “Special Maid” towels were exposed in Yongliang’s official flagship store. So, how does Tmall review this?
According to Tmall’s rules for opening flagship stores, home decoration, furniture and home textiles The qualification to open a retail-type flagship store for products is special invitation. So, what kind of qualification review did the Tmall flagship store undergo before inviting Yongliang? The reporter tried to contact Tmall customer service and Alibaba Vientiane, but unfortunately, there is currently no reply from Tmall.
If you want to join JD.com, suppliers first need to submit basic company information, financial information, and qualification information, including providing quality inspection reports after 2011, if there are many products. Provide quality inspection reports for at least 5 different categories of products, which must have special inspection seals from the National Quality Supervision and Inspection Center.
So what kind of quality inspection report did JD.com receive when it received Yongliang’s application qualification? Unfortunately, JD.com’s customer service contact time is 9:00-18:00. As of press time, reporters still had not found the answer. </p
