SG 111/24
GB 30585-2024 – Safety technical specifications for infants' and children's footwear – was released on May 28, 2024, and will become effective on June 1, 2025.
On May 28, 2024, the State Administration for Market Regulation and the Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China (PRC) issued mandatory product standard GB 30585-2024 – Safety technical specifications for infants' and children's footwear – which will become effective on June 1, 2025.
GB 30585-2024 replaces the previous edition, GB 30585-2014.
The new version of this document is applicable to footwear products made of various materials for children and infants up to and including the age of 14 years.
Main Technical Changes
Revisions to GB 30585-2024 cover:
- Scope
- Terms and definitions
- Requirements for infants’ shoe accessories
- Requirements and testing methods for chromium VI
- Requirements and test methods for the banned azo colorants (AZO)
- Requirements and testing methods for the formaldehyde
- Requirement for total heavy metal content
- Requirement for dimethyl fumarate (DMFu)
- Test method for N-nitrosamine
- Requirements and testing methods for phthalates
- Testing methods for broken needle
- Appendix C for phthalate list
Additions include:
- Requirements and testing methods for chlorophenol
- Requirements and testing methods for short chain chlorinated paraffins (SCCP)
- Appendix A for Banned azo colorants list
Deletions include:
- Requirements and testing methods for shoe shanks
- Requirements and testing methods for odor
- Appendix A for examples for classification of partial accessories
- Appendix D for test method for tensile strength of accessories
Main technical requirements of GB 30585-2024 < Safety technical specifications for infants' and children's footwear >
| No. | Item | Test Method | Requirement |
| 1. | Broken needles | GB 30585-2024, 6.1 | Shoes should not contain any broken needles |
| 2. | Accessible sharp edge and sharp point | GB 6675.2-2014,5.8&5.9 | Shoes should have no accessible sharp edges or sharp point, except for functional studs on outsole such as athletic shoes and football shoes |
| 3. | Effective heel height | GB 30585-2024, 6.3 | ≤25 mm |
| 4. | Small accessories of infants’ shoe | GB 6675.2-2014,5.2&5.24.6.1 | 1. Removable small accessories should not be small enough to fit entirely within small parts cylinder in any orientation 2. Small accessories that have detached after the specified tensile test (including parts that have detached during the tensile test) should not have accessible sharp edges or sharp point, and should not be small enough to fit entirely within small parts cylinder in any orientation 3. Damaged but not detached small accessories after tensile testing should not have accessible sharp edges or point |
| 5. | Chromium VI | GB/T 22807 or GB/T 38402 | Leather, fur ≤3 mg/kg |
| 6. | Banned azo colourants | GB/T 17592 | Textile ≤20 mg/kg Synthetic leather ≤30 mg/kg |
| Banned azo colourants | GB/T 19942 | Leather, fur ≤ 30 mg/kg | |
| 7. | Formaldehyde | GB/T 2912.1 | Textile, synthetic leather: Infants’ footwear ≤20 mg/kg Direct contact with skin ≤75 mg/kg Non direct contact with skin ≤300 mg/kg |
| Formaldehyde | GB/T 19941.1 or GB/T 19941.2 | Leather, fur: Infants’ footwear ≤20 mg/kg Direct contact with skin ≤75 mg/kg Non direct contact with skin ≤300 mg/kg | |
| 8. | Total heavy metal content | QB/T 4340 | Coated (printed) materials, synthetic leather, synthetic materials such as rubber and plastic: Pb ≤90 mg/kg Cd ≤100 mg/kg |
| 9. | Dimethyl fumarate | GB/T 26713 | Textile, synthetic leather, leather, fur ≤0.1 mg/kg |
| 10. | Chlorinated phenols | GB/T 18414.1 | Textile, synthetic leather: PCP ≤0.5 mg/kg 2,3,5,6-TeCP ≤0.5 mg/kg |
| Chlorinated phenols | GB/T 22808 | Leather, Fur: PCP ≤0.5 mg/kg | |
| 11. | N-nitrosamine | ISO 19577:2019 | Rubber parts of infants’ shoe ≤0.5 mg/kg |
| 12. | Phthalate | GB/T 32440.1 | Coated (printed) materials, synthetic leather, synthetic materials such as rubber and plastic Infants’ footwear: Σ (DINP, DIDP, DNOP) <0.1% Σ (DEHP, DBP, BBP, DIBP) <0.1% Children's footwear: Σ (DEHP, DBP, BBP, DIBP) <0.1% |
| 13. | Short chain chlorinated paraffins | GB/T 40263 | Textiles <0.15% |
| Short chain chlorinated paraffins | GB/T 38405 | Synthetic leather, leather, fur <0.15% | |
| Short chain chlorinated paraffins | SN/T 3814 | Synthetic materials such as rubber and plastic <0.15% |
Details of The Technical Content
For more information, please refer to the standard, GB 30585-2024 – Safety technical specifications for infants' and children's footwear – or contact SGS directly.
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