GB18383-2025
General technical requirements for products with filling materials
絮用纤维制品通用技术要求
GB 18383-2025 is an upcoming mandatory Chinese national standard for General technical requirements for products with filling materials. It appears in the Consumer compliance cluster with a product safety focus and has an implementation date of Jul 1, 2026.
Applicability depends on product scope, certification route, competent authority notices and transition rules. Requst for the translation or verify source before using this record in a compliance decision.
Compliance overview
Scope and applicability
GB 18383-2025 is a mandatory national standard applicable to all products with filling materials (絮用纤维制品) manufactured, sold, or imported in China. This includes daily use products such as winter clothing, down garments, quilts, pillows, mattresses, sofas, and plush toys, as well as non-daily use products such as building insulation and agricultural packaging materials. Any product utilizing filling or cushioning fibers must comply with this standard, regardless of whether the filling is natural fiber, chemical fiber, or a blend thereof. The standard also introduces specific requirements for infant products (≤36 months) and mandates explicit labeling for products using recycled materials.
Technical requirements
The standard establishes prohibited raw materials that must never be used in any filling material products, including medical textile waste, used funeral textiles, contaminated fibers from epidemic areas, and illegally imported used fiber products. For daily use products, additional restrictions apply: used or recycled fibers (with limited exceptions), bleached fiber waste, unwashed animal fibers, and moldy filling materials are strictly banned. Manufacturers must verify that all filling materials are sourced from approved origins and that no hazardous foreign matter is present. Technical performance requirements include limits on short fiber content (fibers ≤13mm must not exceed 25% for most daily use products), foreign matter content (varying thresholds by fiber type, e.g., ≤1.4% for cotton, ≤3.0% for down/feather), and fiber content tolerances (0% tolerance for single-fiber fillings, 10% for multi-fiber blends). The standard also introduces a new free residual chlorine limit (≤10mg/kg) for filling materials in soft furniture, and sets hygiene indicator requirements categorized into Class A, B, and C (aligned with GB 18401 safety categories), covering pathogenic bacteria, microbial colony counts, and odor restrictions. For infant products (≤36 months), the standard imposes stricter material restrictions: only regenerated polyester fiber is permitted among recycled chemical fibers, while all other recycled chemical fibers are prohibited as filling materials. Additionally, products using recycled materials (reprocessed fibers, recycled chemical fibers, recycled washed animal fibers) must be clearly labeled with the specific recycled material type on each product. Non-daily use products must bear a durable "Non-Daily Use" warning label.
Testing methods
The standard prescribes sensory inspection procedures conducted under specified lighting conditions (≥600lx), involving visual examination for contaminants, metal/sharp objects, mold, and abnormal fiber appearance. Physical and chemical testing includes short fiber content determination via the roller method (GB/T 43811) or hand-pulling method (Appendix A), foreign matter content testing via machine inspection (GB/T 6499) or manual sorting (Appendix B), and fiber content analysis per GB/T 2910 and related standards. Free residual chlorine is tested per GB/T 28025, while hygiene indicators (pathogenic bacteria, microbial counts, odor) are evaluated per GB 15979, GB/T 28024, and SN/T 3335. Sampling follows strict batch-based rules with representative multi-point random extraction.
FAQs
What products are regulated under GB 18383-2025?
GB 18383-2025 applies to all products with filling materials, including daily use items such as down garments, quilts, pillows, mattresses, sofas, and plush toys, as well as non-daily use items like building insulation and agricultural packaging materials. Any product containing filling or cushioning fibers falls under this standard's scope.
What are the key changes from GB 18383-2007?
Major updates include new requirements for infant products (≤36 months), addition of free residual chlorine limits, expanded hygiene indicators (bacterial/fungal colony counts, E. coli), updated short fiber content thresholds and testing methods, mandatory recycled material labeling, revised batch sampling and judgment rules, and removal of packaging/storage/transport requirements.
How does GB 18383-2025 relate to GB 18401?
The hygiene indicator categories (Class A, B, C) in GB 18383-2025 are directly aligned with the safety technical categories defined in GB 18401 (National General Safety Technical Code for Textile Products). This ensures consistency in microbial and safety requirements across textile product standards in China.
The summary above provides a high-level overview of GB 18383-2025. To ensure complete compliance for your filling material products entering the Chinese market, a precise and professional translation of the full technical specifications is essential. Purchase our high-quality English translation of GB 18383-2025 today to access all detailed parameter tables, testing procedures, sampling rules, and normative appendices.
Applicability hints
- Type
- Safety
- CCS
- W59
- ICS
- 59.080.99
- Competent department
- Standardization Administration of China
- Technical committee
- National Technical Committee on Fibers of Standardization Administration of China
Relationships
Replaces:GB 18383-2007 (Current)