Five chlorine phenol is a kind of important preservative, it can prevent fungal growth, restrain bacterial corrosion function, and to prevent the occurrence of pest, so it is often used in cotton, wool, leather and other natural fiber storage, transportation, also used as textiles printing material anticorrosive mouldproof stabilizer. However, large institutions at home and abroad study shows that five chlorine phenol is a strong toxic substance, its human has teratogenic and carcinogenicity; In the combustion would release dioxin-like compounds, can cause to the environment lasting damage. The eu specially established limit five chlorine in textile clothing phenol use on statutory file "1999/51 / EC instruction," including defining: textiles and clothing exports to Europe on five chlorine phenol of set limit to no more than 0.5 mg/kg (baby products shall not exceed 0.05 mg/kg).
According to ningbo entry-exit inspection and quarantine statistics, 2010 to 9 months, ningbo area exports to the European Union's textile clothing totaling 2.95 million batch, close 2007 billion, compared with the same period in 2009 2.75 million batches and 5.88 million dollars, up respectively increased 7.3% and 6.0%, presents the good rise. At present, the European each clothing brand of five chlorine in the use of phenol on textiles is strictly limited rules.
In view of this, the inspection and quarantine department Suggestions: first, in the source is restricting the use of phenol five chlorine, textile printing factory and commitment to achieve chuan aid agent works signed at ease use does not contain five chlorine phenol textile chemical agents, Second, printing and dyeing and additives industry should adopt closely cooperate sincerely, in meet must use mouldproof antibacterial agent, can consider to use current confirmation nontoxic ortho-phenyl phenol (opp) instead of five chlorine phenol, Third, as the final checks for the export products, inspection andquarantine related department also should lose European textile and clothing products for effective five chlorine phenol sampling test work, in case for five chlorine hydroxybenzene in question cause eu informed.

Source "of Chinese textile net"
Editor: lara