TEXTILE DYES AND FINISHES - REMARKS TO TO XICOLOGICAL AND ANALYTICAL ASPECTS

With regard to the safety of production and use of textile clothings, in addition to occupational and environmental aspects, consumers healt h protection has to be considered. Regularly, only scarce information is available about the migration of textile finishes and dyes from fab rics. Therefore, the exposition of consumers can only be roughly estim ated. Since 1992 the working group ''textiles'' oft, the German Federa l Institute of Consumers Health Protection and Veterinary Medicine (Bg VV) in Berlin is engaged to improve the toxicological evaluation of te xtile clothings. In this context, some basic principles of consumers h ealth protection with regard to textile clothings are discussed. In ad dition, the toxicological literature is compiled, especially regarding allergenicity of some textile finishes, auxiliaries and dyes. Specic topics are formaldehyde, glyoxal, carrier substances, name retardants as well as some possibly harmful azo dyes. Furthermore some analytical methods for the determination of the respective substances have been collected from the literature.