Zhengzhou Labor Insurance Stores Detected Black Heart Cotton

With the advent of winter, cotton and quilts gradually became hot sellers in the market, but there are also some unscrupulous merchants who use the market demand to sell “black heart cotton” products to vulnerable groups such as students and migrant workers. In order to ensure the safety of the cotton products market, the Mingwu Road Industrial and Commercial Bureau of the Ergonomics Administration Bureau of Zhengzhou Municipal Administration for Industry and Commerce dispatched 20 people in recent days to conduct special inspections on the 15 labor insurance product stores in the jurisdiction.

Finding 17 pieces of “black heart cotton” products and selling them to migrant workers

During the operation, it was mainly to check whether the main body of the business license was complete, whether the goods purchase channel and the record of the sales receipt were complete, etc., in order to prevent the “three noes” and unqualified cotton products from entering the circulation field. The reporter went with a law enforcement officer to a labor insurance product store on the road to see a steel plate door in a temporary building and surrounded more than 10 people in purchasing bedding. There are a variety of bedding on the door of the store, including a quilt cover. To open the quilt corners, the reporter saw black and grey rotten cotton mixed in between the two layers of white cotton. After inspection, law enforcement officers found that more than 10 beds in this shop were all "black heart cotton" products.

According to the owner of the shop, the quilt was sold by the salesman, and he did not know the specific manufacturer. "There were 20 articles in total and seven or eight articles have already been sold." The boss also said that the quilt was sold at a very low price, one for fifty or sixty yuan. It was mainly sold to other living migrant workers. "They (the peasant workers) do not require quality, as long as they can keep warm, too expensive. can not afford".

“Is this black cotton good for warming? Migrant workers are dormant to live under the overpass. Do you sell such quilts to them instead of pitting them?” Facing the inquiries of law enforcement officials, the boss was speechless.

In this inspection, law enforcement officers found a total of 17 cotton quilts and quilts that were allegedly unacceptable in three cotton-cotton-cotton clothing stores. At present, law enforcement officials have temporarily suspended all these unqualified “black heart cotton” products and waited for further processing.

"Black Heart Cotton" carries more germs, the easiest way to distinguish is burning

According to law enforcement officials, "black heart cotton" is a common name for raw materials banned from the use of fiber products, including fiber industry waste, medical fibrous waste, recycled fibrous substances, used clothing and other waste fiber products. The “black heart cotton” filled with industrial waste and medical waste can cause diarrhea and lung infections. Some fillers contain harmful chemicals such as formaldehyde. After contact with the human body, they can easily cause people to shed tears and erythema, and severe cases can induce skin diseases or other infectious diseases. In addition, “Black Heart Cotton” also contains Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus, and hemolytic streptococci, which are extremely harmful to the human body. Some bacteria are "terrible killers" because of antibiotics, and some bacteria may also cause sepsis.

The law enforcement officials reminded everyone that when purchasing cotton products, they can ask the merchants to provide product certification and dismantle the corner of the cotton products to see the color of the filled cotton. If it is too white, it may be bleached. In addition, to see if there are other thread and other debris in cotton, "black heart cotton" is generally a lot of debris. You can also identify "black heart cotton" by smelling and pulling, because after chemical bleaching, the "black heart cotton" smell is very pungent, and one tear will break. “The simplest method of identification is to use fire. “Black Heart Cotton” is processed from industrial or medical waste cotton, so it burns black smoke and gives off a pungent odor when burning, and the real cotton is fully burned and eventually it will Burnt ashes."

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