Many of the dyes used in the textile industry contain cadmium. In addition, plastic additives, cigarette smoke, cadmium sulfur and zinc producing plants are the cadmium sources around us. Simply put, when used batteries are thrown away, cadmium and its compounds break down in a short period of time and become free and mix with water. This water pollutes drinking water and soil and enters the human body in a way through the food chain.

Anatomically, the body perceives cadmium as calcium and begins to accumulate. Its greatest danger is that it weakens the bones and makes them brittle. In the meantime, smokers have more cadmium in their body than 50 percent. In the same way, air pollution causes cadmium and lead accumulation in humans.

The Communiqué on Market Surveillance and Inspection of Hazardous Chemical Substances of Certain Consumer Products issued by the Ministry of Customs and Trade includes restrictions on substances and restrictions criteria.

Accordingly, the following restrictions apply to clothing and accessories, artificial leather and textile fabrics coated or laminated:

• Products made from synthetic organic polymers (plastic materials) cannot contain more cadmium than 0,01 of the weight of the plastic material.
• The dyed products may not contain greater than 0,1 percent by weight of the dyed portions of cadmium.

Laboratories are accredited in accordance with the TS EN ISO / IEC 17025 standard from the domestic or foreign accreditation organizations in order to be qualified and reliable in their measurement, test and analysis studies and for the validity of the reports they prepare. These laboratories carry out cadmium analyzes in plastic products within the scope of their chemical and ecological studies. The standards adopted in these studies are as follows:

• BS EN 1122 Plastics - Determination of cadmium - Wet decomposition method
• TS EN 1122 Plastics - Determination of cadmium - Wet shredding method