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REVIEW OF PYJAMA FLAMMABILITY
New Zealand’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs has announced a review of the safety standard for children’s nightwear after three children wearing fire-retardant pyjamas were badly burned in 2007. There are four categories of fire hazard labeling for children’s nightwear but only one is for garments made from low-fire-hazard fabric. Clothes in categories one to three are all entitled to carry the same "low-fire-danger" label, even though the only requirements for the second and third categories are that the clothes are close-fitting or are all-in-one and made of knitted fabrics. Garments that do not meet any of these standards are in category four and must carry a fire-warning label. Minister of Consumer Affairs, Judith Tizard, said that the safety standard would be reviewed "in full" in time for next winter, but that there was a danger in recommending "one pair of (low-fire-danger) pyjamas over another".

ICD-11 UNDER DEVELOPMENT
An article in the August edition . . . [Full text of this article]