Standards for nightwear

Press, 27 August 1977, Page 23

Standards for nightwear

PA Hamilton Flammable children’s nightwear may be outlawed soon. The sale of garments of the type which have caused disfiguring burns to children are banned under a bill to be introduced in Parliament this session. The prohibition, effective from late 1979, would apply to all children’s nightwear which fails to meet specified standards, said an official of the Standards Association of New Zealand, today. Mr J. Moor, the senior technical adviser on chemical and related industries, said the Safety of Children’s Night Clothes Bill cited

three standards which had been developed by the association. The draft bill would prohibit the sale of garments which failed to meet the standards. The new standards set specifications for low firerisk fabrics, and test methods to back the specifications. A third standard allowed two methods by which garments could pass the tests: By being made from approved material, or by complying with close-fitting design limits. Representatives of manufacturers and retailers had approved the draft bill and the standards, Mr Moor said.