Coloring agents and pigments
Level: Core
The purpose of the requirement is to limit environmentally and health-hazardous dyes and pigments in textiles.
Details
- Type:
- Special contract terms
- ID:
- 10342:3
- Group:
- Acquisition of textiles during the contract period
- Swedish:
Criterion text
In textiles acquired by the supplier during the contract period, the dyes and pigments listed in the table below shall not be present in levels above 50 mg/kg textile for each individual substance.
Substance |
CAS-no |
Disperse dyestuff |
|
C.I. Disperse Blue1 | 2475-45-8 |
C.I. Disperse Blue 3 |
2475-46-9 |
C.I. Disperse Blue 7 |
3179-90-6 |
C.I. Disperse Blue 26 |
3860-63-7 |
C.I. Disperse Blue 35 |
12222-75-2 |
C.I. Disperse Blue 102 |
12222-97-8 |
C.I. Disperse Blue 106 |
12223-01-7 |
C.I. Disperse Blue 124 |
61951-51-7 |
C.I. Disperse Brown 1 |
23355-64-8 |
C.I. Disperse Orange 1 |
2581-69-3 |
C.I. Disperse Orange 3 | 730-40-5 |
C.I. Disperse Orange 11 | 82-28-01 |
C.I. Disperse Orange 37/76 |
13301-61-6 |
C.I. Disperse Orange 149 | 85136-74-9 |
C.I. Disperse Red 1 |
2872-52-8 |
C.I. Disperse Red 11 |
2872-48-2 |
C.I. Disperse Red 17 |
3179-89-3 |
C.I. Disperse Yellow 1 |
119-15-3 |
C.I. Disperse Yellow 3 | 2832-40-8 |
C.I. Disperse Yellow 9 |
6373-73-5 |
C.I. Disperse Yellow 23 | 6250-23-3 |
C.I. Disperse Yellow 39 |
12236-29-2 |
C.I. Disperse Yellow 49 |
54824-37-2 |
Acid dyestuff |
|
C.I. Acid Red 26 |
3761-53-3 |
Basic (cationic) dyestuff |
|
C.I. Basic Blue 26 | 2580-56-5 |
C.I. Basic Red 9 |
569-61-9 |
C.I. Basic Violet 3 | 548-62-9 |
C.I. Basic Green 4 (oxalate) | 2437-29-8 |
C.I. Basic Green 4 (chloride) | 569-64-2 |
Mordant dyestuff |
|
Sodium dichromate |
10588-01-9 |
Direct dyestuff |
|
C.I. Direct Black 38 |
1937-37-7 |
C.I. Direct Red 28 |
573-58-0 |
C.I. Direct Blue 6 |
2602-46-2 |
C.I. Direct Blue 15 | 2429-74-5 |
Pigment |
|
Cadmium sulphide |
1306-23-6 |
Lead orange |
1314-41-6 |
Sodium chromate |
7775-11-3 |
Potassium dichromate |
7778-50-9 |
Acetic acid, lead salt, basic |
51404-69-4 |
Pigment Red 104 | 12656-85-8 |
Pigment Yellow 34 | 1344-37-2 |
Navy Blue | 118685-33-9 |
Proposed follow-up
.Labelling
If the contract terms have been verified with a label, check that there is a valid license for the product in question.
Valid license for any of for example the following labels. This can be checked on each website:
- Ökotex Standard 100 (produktklass I, II, III, IV) 2021-2023
- Nordic Ecolabelling for Textile, hides/skins and leather, version 4
- EU Ecolabel for textile products 2014/350/EU
- GOTS, version 6.0 (2020) eller version 7.0 (2023)
- bluesign APPROVED – BSSL (bluesign system substance list, usage range A, B, C), version 12 or 13
If the requirement has been verified with bluesign a valid certificate can be requested from the supplier. The Supplier can receive a certrificate from its “bluesign system partner” in the supply chain. bluesign APPROVED covers the different textiles. If bluesign APPROVED is used as verification a certificate for each ingoing textile in the product is needed.
Analysis report
If the contract terms have been verified with analysis reports, perform spot-checks on the analysis reports and check that the values are below the requirement limit value for each dye or pigment. Also check that the analyses were performed by an accredited laboratory.
Self-declaration verified by an accredited verification body
If the contract terms have been verified with a self-declaration request the company's self-declaration including technical documentation of compliance that has been verified by an accredited verification body, accredited for the task in accordance with ISO/IEC 17029.
Information about the criterion
Keep in mind that the choice of color on the textiles that are procured affects which pigments and dyes are included in the textile. When choosing specific colors, it can be good to have a dialogue with the supplier to avoid environmentally and health-hazardous pigments and dyes.
There are currently a limited number of accredited verification bodies according to ISO / IEC 17029 (Conformity assessment - General principles and requirements for validation and verification bodies), as it is a relatively new standard. However, this may change, especially if the demand for verifying compliance in this way increases. This possibility is therefore included in the list of possible verifications. More information about the standard is available at www.swedac.se.
Environmental goals
Versions history
The version date indicates when the sustainability criterion was created or last updated. Last reviewed dated tells when we last checked that the sustainability criterion still is relevant.
- Current ID
- 10342:3
- Version date
- 2021-11-10