[New methodological approaches to the hygienic standards of clothes for children and adults].
The hygienic assessment is presently a research issue related mainly with commissioning new materials into production; the above issue is equally related with materials' diversity, with expanding the choice of commodities and with the multi-functionality of the latter as well as with modern technologies and with the forthcoming admittance of our country to the WTO, which necessitates a harmonization of regulating requirements in various countries. The old approaches towards regulations of cloths are outdated and are no longer in line with the requirements of today. The chemical stability of contemporary synthetic fibers and the narrowing-of-gap between their physical-and-hygienic indices and those of natural fibers ensures unified approaches towards the hygienic evaluation of both. A real load that is conceptually found as a product of the impact intensity on the impact duration time is a hygienically valuable criterion ensuring a universal approach towards regulating the cloths hygienic safety. A hygienic classification provides, in case of each item, for defining the index of its hygienic safety (HIS), which is a basis for designing the differential requirements towards cloths of various functional purposes and for various age groups. The area of contact with the skin during wear and the age of consumer are the key components of system (The Hygienic Classification of Cloths". The article is supplemented by 1 drawing, 2 tables and a list of literature (8 entries; article's volume is 5 pages).