Guangzhou: leathergoods “unsafe”
30/07/2008
The official quality and technology supervision bureau in the city of Guangzhou in southern China has said that 14% of a batch of locally produced leathergoods that it has sampled are “unsafe” because of the presence in formaldehyde.
The same survey drew the same conclusion about 34% of furniture samples that it studied, but said plywood, rather than any leather, used in the production of the furniture was the source of the formaldehyde, and that all of the furniture the bureau had looked at was destined for the domestic market.
As far as the leathergoods were concerned, the inspectors concluded that 11 of 80 batches they examined were not up to standard because of their high formaldehyde content.
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