"Kitchen Paper towels" and other three household paper industry related national standards were approved and released.

On August6 2023, the State Administration for Market Supervision and Administration (Standardization Administration) issued Announcement No. 7 of 2023, approving the release of 431 recommended national standards and 2 national standard amendments, including 3 national standards related to the household paper industry such as "Kitchen paper towels", the specific information is as follows.

"Kitchen Paper towel" is suitable for kitchen wiping, cleaning and other purpose paper towel products, compared with the original standard, the new national standard in raw material composition, product classification, performance, safety performance and other aspects have been adjusted. In terms of technical requirements, the new national standard deletes the indicators such as horizontal liquid absorption height, horizontal tensile index and longitudinal wet tensile index, and increases the requirements of water absorption time, water absorption capacity, oil absorption capacity, horizontal tensile strength, longitudinal wet tensile strength, powder removal rate, movable fluorescent substances, acrylamide, ash, decolorization performance, heavy metals, decomposed carcinogenic aromatic amine dyes and other indicators.