Swiss bluesign revamps safety guidelines for chemical use in textiles

The 2023 revision considers new scientific knowledge on the toxicological and ecological profile of substances, new legal classification of chemical substances, new legal consumer safety limits, revised risk assessments following the bluesign Critera for chemical assessment, feedback from experts of its Chemical Expert Group (CEG) as well as new analytical standards, bluesign said.

On July 1, 2023, all PFAS containing chemicals used for DWR finishing were removed from the bluesign Finder according to the company’s PFAS phase-out concept. After two years of monitoring chemical products, bisphenol S, bisphenol F, and bisphenol AF limits are now defined. Alignment with ZDHC MRSL 3.1 and AFIRM RSL 2023 has been implemented.

The revised documents of BSSL and BSBL came into effect and are applied in the bluesign Tool from July 1, 2023. They replace the BSBL, version 4.0 from July 1, 2022, and BSSL, version 13.0 from July 1, 2022.

The bluesign RSL, version 14.0 is still under preparation and will be published by end of July 2023.

The 2023 revision of BSBL and BSSL, as well as the documents regarding the relevant changes to substances and limits can be found on the bluesign website under the following headings—BSBL v5.0, BSSL v14.0, bluesign RSL v14.0, BSBL v5.0 – Changes 2023, BSSL v14.0 – Changes 2023, and bluesign RSL v14.0 – Changes 2023.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (NB)