The China Association for Quality Promotion of Consumer Products Safety published a monitoring report on 2 April 2026. The National Textile and Garment Product Quality Inspection and Testing Center (Guangzhou) tested 21 baby wet wipes bought from online shops. The narrative is in the text layer. The sample-by-sample annex is an image. Antimony is the metal the annex shows. Lead, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury read as not detected on that image, and the unit on that row was not clean enough to adopt.
Key numbers
The narrative says total antimony was detected in 20 of the 21 products, and that one named product was not detected. The product name is not repeated here. The annex uses the letters A through U. It does not print brand names. Sample N is the column that reads as not detected. The fiber cell for that column did not read cleanly, so the non-detect is not treated here as a cotton measurement. The narrative’s product name is not a ranking of products now on the shelf.
The antimony row label reads as total antimony on a per-liter unit. The text layer does not contain the unit or the sample numbers. Optical reading of the prefix is weaker than the digits. The glyphs fit micrograms per liter and do not fit the milligrams-per-kilogram label on the formaldehyde row. The preparation that put antimony into a per-liter number is not described. These figures are not milligrams per kilogram, and they are not the Choi digest.
Preferred reads from the annex image, micrograms per liter. A wrapped cell is flagged. The stable low read is sample C at 15.02. The stable high read is sample O at 450.45.
| Sample | Total antimony (µg/L) | Read |
|---|---|---|
| A | 283.93 | Single line |
| B | 96.71 | Single line |
| C | 15.02 | Single line |
| D | 236.77 | Single line |
| E | 226.48 | Wrapped; second digit joined |
| F | 107.23 | Wrapped; second digit joined |
| G | 233.18 | Wrapped; second digit joined |
| H | 41.78 | Single line |
| I | 181.98 | Wrapped; second digit less certain |
| J | 116.51 | Wrapped; second digit less certain |
| K | 383.7 | Last digit low confidence |
| L | 157.12 | Wrapped; second digit joined |
| M | 305.19 | Single line |
| N | Not detected | Narrative attributes the non-detect to one named product |
| O | 450.45 | Preferred; a full-cell pass also produced 490.40 |
| P | 207.8 | Single line |
| Q | 107.82 | Single line |
| R | 410.74 | Two lines, 410. and 74 |
| S | 293.38 | Wrapped; second digit less certain |
| T | 149.55 | Single line |
| U | 355.43 | Preferred; a full-cell pass also produced 399.43 |
The heavy-metal row covers lead, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury. Every column that could be read is not detected, and the unreadable columns fail in the same way as the not-detected glyph. The unit on that row was not adopted. The narrative does not state these four results. Arsenic on that row is the element. Mercury is not identified as methylmercury.
Formaldehyde is a different row, in mg/kg, and the narrative confirms the unit. GB 43631-2023 is cited as a limit of 6 mg/kg or below for infant wipes. The narrative says 3 of 21 samples exceeded that limit, and the highest was 71.8 mg/kg. The annex image shows 42.8 mg/kg (sample C), 32.8 mg/kg (sample R), and 71.8 mg/kg (sample T). Sample C at 42.8 mg/kg is the product the narrative describes as labeled to an ordinary-wipe standard: above the infant limit, and, on the association’s account, within the ordinary standard it declared. Sample U has a number near 7 that did not read cleanly (7.1 and an incomplete 7). It is not published here as 7.7. If that cell is above 6, the annex has four numeric formaldehyde results above the infant limit while the narrative says three. Both statements are kept.
Methanol, on the narrative, is limited at 20 mg/kg or below. One sample was 626.42 mg/kg. The narrative says methylisothiazolinone was found in some samples, and methylisothiazolinone together with methylchloroisothiazolinone in some others. It gives no count and no concentration. The annex cells for those preservatives did not read cleanly enough to publish a number. Six parabens were not detected in any of the 21 products. Phenoxyethanol was detected in 11 of 21, within the 2015 cosmetic technical specification as the association applies it. Ethanol was detected in 3 samples. One product labeled alcohol-free was 268 μg/g.
Liquid content met a national requirement of at least 1.7 times, and 3 products failed on shortage, including a 100-count pack that contained 72 sheets on the association’s recount.
Methods (brief)
Products were bought online by searching for infant wipes. The narrative names several of the 21 products. Those names are the purchase description. They are not repeated here, and they are not a result table. The annex does not assign a letter to a product name, except that the narrative identifies one named product as the antimony non-detect.
The association states that three named products met the standards it applied. Those names are not repeated here. That sentence is the association’s. It is not a ranking produced here, and it is not a metal result. Meeting a formaldehyde or labeling standard is not a statement about antimony in milligrams per kilogram.
Instruments and digestion for the antimony per-liter number are not in the narrative. Standards named for the monitoring set include GB/T 27728.1-2024, GB/T 27728.2-2024, GB 43631-2023, GB 15979-2024, GB 4806.8-2022, GB 5749-2022, and the 2015 cosmetic technical specification. The report says Chinese infant-wipe standards it checked do not set an antimony limit, and that the monitoring added total antimony for that reason.
Evidence fitness
The annex supports a per-liter total-antimony reading on these 21 products, with the optical limits in the table. It supports the narrative’s non-metal counts where the text layer states them. It does not support a content unit for antimony, a shared basis with the Choi digest, a fiber result for sample N, or a brand order. Lead, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury are non-detects on an unresolved unit. They are not milligrams per kilogram.
The same 21 products were also tested for preservatives, parabens, phenoxyethanol, phthalates, acrylamide, volatile organics, ethanol, microbes, pH, and fiber. Phthalate cells were not read cleanly. Those co-exposure facts belong with a later paper on non-metal wipe constituents. They are not metal results.
Limitations
The annex is an image. Wrapped cells and the two full-cell disagreements (samples O and U) are flagged rather than averaged away. The association claims copyright in the report. This page quotes the results and does not reproduce the annex artwork. No nickel, tin, aluminum, or chromium column was read. No dermal dose is in the report.
Related evidence
- Baby wipes
- Heavy metals in baby wipes
- Determination of heavy metals on the non-woven in wet wipes using ICP-MS
- Antimony
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