Testing standards for antibacterial activity of textiles

There are different antimicrobial evaluations and testing methods for antibacterial performance of textiles,which can be mainly divided into qualitative and quantitative evaluations.The latter is more accurate and more reliable,but more complex and time-consuming compared with the former.This paper introduces antibacterial finishing agents and testing standards.Further more,the mutual antimicrobial test methods and standards in the world at present are compared,including American standard AATCC,international standard ISO,Japanese industrial standard JIS and China national standard GB.Although the standards of antibacterial properties testing are similar on the whole,there are still some differences in specific operation details and result formulations.It is necessary to choose the correct testing standards and methods according to the terminal use and purpose of antimicrobial textiles.