Strengthen product hygiene requirements and upgrade national standards for disposable sanitary products

CCTV News, Beijing, July 17: In recent years, new products and new materials have continued to emerge, and the hygiene requirements for products have further increased. In order to better standardize product development and protect consumer health, the State Administration for Market Regulation (National Standards Administration) recently issued the "Hygienic Requirements for Disposable Hygiene Products" (GB 15979-2024) mandatory national standard.

Disposable sanitary products are a type of daily necessities that can help users achieve cleaning and hygiene purposes. They have the characteristics of a wide variety and wide use. Such products are in direct contact with the human body, and the hygienic status of the products directly affects the health of the people. As the hygiene habits of our country's residents continue to improve and safety awareness continues to increase, all sectors of society are paying more and more attention to the hygiene and safety of disposable sanitary products. Since the implementation of the current "Hygienic Standards for Disposable Hygiene Products", it has been widely used in many fields such as hygiene, catering, industrial manufacturing, medicine, etc., and has played an important role in ensuring product hygiene and safety.

This standard was revised by the National Administration of Disease Control and Prevention, and mainly revised five aspects. First, the scope of application of the standard has been adjusted, the definition of "disposable sanitary products" has been adjusted, and terms and definitions of categories such as "sanitary wipes", "antibacterial agents" and "bacteriostatic agents" have been added. Second, the hygiene requirements for raw materials have been refined, and requirements for banned substances in raw materials and production water have been added.

The third is to optimize the hygiene requirements of the production process, and combine the "initial contaminating bacteria" in the production environment hygiene indicators, biological monitoring evaluation of disinfection effects, and product hygiene indicators into the hygiene requirements of the production process. Fourth, product hygiene requirements have been strengthened. Based on the health risks of different disposable sanitary products, the physical and chemical indicators of pH value and residual amount of removable fluorescent whitening agents have been added according to risk levels. Microbial contamination indicators and toxicological safety have also been adjusted. sexual requirements. Fifth, the relevant detection methods have been updated and supplemented, the fungus detection methods have been adjusted, the ethylene oxide residue detection methods have been optimized, new physical and chemical index detection methods, and some anti-bacterial (anti-bacterial) test methods have been added.