China Updates GB 18383-2025 General Technical Requirements for Products with Filling Materials

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China Releases an Updated National Mandatory Standard GB 18383-2025 General technical requirements for products with filling materials

The Standardization Administration of China has issued national product standard GB 18383-2025 General technical requirements for products with filling materials. As part of China’s No. 32 announcement on approved national standards in 2025, this new standard replaces the previous version, GB 18383-2007 and will come into effect on July 1, 2026.

Scope

The new standard defines the terms and definitions related to products with filling materials, specifies the requirements, sampling, judgement rules and labeling. It also describes the corresponding test methods.

This document applies to all products with filling materials.

Terms and definitions

Filling materials

The collective term for natural fibers, chemical fibers and their mixtures used for stuffing and padding.

Products with filling materials

Products that use filling materials and those processed into wadding, felts, etc., for stuffing and padding. It can be divided into daily use products with filling materials and non-daily use products with filling materials.

Daily use products with filling materials

Products with filling materials that are in close contact with the human body in daily life, mainly including apparel and footwear items such as garments for protection against cold, down garments, clothes with fillings, shoes with fillings, and hats with fillings; bedding items such as quilts, mattresses, pillows, and cushions; upholstered furniture such as mattresses, sofas, and seating or reclining pads; and toy items such as plush toys.

Non-daily use products with filling materials

Products with filling materials excluding those for daily use, mainly including insulation materials for buildings, agricultural insulation materials, transportation packaging materials, decorative materials, building acoustic insulation materials, etc.

Requirements

Requirements shall comply with clause 4 and clause 6 of GB 18383-2025.

Main technical changes

Compared with GB 18383-2007, GB 18383-2025 contains many updates, including:

Additions:

• Terms and definitions for non-daily use products with filling materials, unused fiber product waste, used fiber product waste, recycled chemical fiber
• Requirement and test methods for residual chlorine in products with filling materials
• Raw material requirements for stuffing and padding materials used in infant products
• Requirement and test method for total bacterial count, total fungal count and coliforms
• Detailed operation methods for appearance test
• Methods for specimen preparation for hygienic items
• Claim requirements for recycled raw materials
• Sampling requirements for hygienic items
• Provisions for single‑item assessment

Revisions:

• Terms and definitions for filling materials, products with filling materials, daily use products with filling materials, mechanical recycled fiber and textile waste from medical products
• Requirements for raw materials
• Limited scope for stuffing and padding materials used in daily use products with filling materials
• Requirements for categories of raw materials used in daily use products with filling materials
• Requirement and test method for staple fiber content
• Requirement and test method for percentage of foreign matter
• Requirement for filling materials content in daily use products with filling materials
• Name of pseudomonas aeruginosa
• Microorganism requirements for down and feather products
• Name of odor category
• Products with filling materials shall comply with other requirements
• Test method for odor
• Sampling quantity specification for packed filling materials
• Requirements for lot judgment
• Sampling quantity for percentage of trash by machine inspection method

Deletions:

• Requirement and test method for skin and mucous irritation responses 
• Re-inspection
• Labeling for daily use products with filling materials
• Requirements for packaging, storage and transportation
• Roller method

Details of the technical content

For more information, please refer to China National Standard GB 18383-2025 General technical requirements for products with filling materials, or contact SGS directly.

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