(美国)美国服装鞋业协会公布第五版全球禁用物质清单.pdf

American Apparel Footwear Association (AAFA) Restricted Substance List (RSL) August 2009 Release 5 AAFA Restricted Substance List (RSL) 1 Version Date: August 2009 Introduction This Restricted Substances List (RSL) was created by a special working group of the American Apparel Footwear Association’s (AAFA) Environmental Task Force. The RSL is intended to provide apparel and footwear companies with information related to regulations and laws that restrict or ban certain chemicals and substances in finished home textile, apparel, and footwear products around the world. It is our hope that this RSL will serve as a practical tool to help those individuals in textile, apparel and footwear companies, and their suppliers, responsible for environmental compliance throughout the supply chain, to become more aware of various national regulations governing the amount of substances that are permitted in finished home textile, apparel and footwear products. Our effort is to create a dynamic and useful instrument. The RSL will be updated on a regular basis and will be supplemented with additional resources to help officials in these companies undertake responsible chemical management practices in the aforementioned finished products. AAFA Restricted Substance List (RSL) 2 Version Date: August 2009 Methodology The RSL includes only those materials, chemicals, and substances that are restricted or banned in finished home textile, apparel, and footwear products because of a regulation or law. In each case, the RSL identifies the most restrictive regulation. The RSL does not include regulations that restrict the use of substances in production processes or in the factory; rather the focus is on whether or not th