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Follow me! New national standards for household appliance noise GB/T 19606-2024 and GB 44498-2024 have been released

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2025-05-20

The new national standards for household appliance noise, GB 44498-2024 "Health Technical Specification for Household and Similar Electrical Appliances" and GB/T 19606-2024 "Noise Limits for Household and Similar Electrical Appliances", will be officially implemented on September 1, 2026.

Recently, two standards that have a profound impact on the regulation of household appliance noise have been released - GB 44498-2024 "Health Technical Specification for Household and Similar Electrical Appliances" and GB/T 19606-2024 "Noise Limits for Household and Similar Electrical Appliances", and will be officially implemented on September 1, 2026. In this article, we deeply analyze the noise standards and provide guidance for enterprises to cope with them.

01. Transformation and correlation of standard properties

The GB 19606-2004 standard was previously mandatory, but after the release of GB/T 19606-2024, its nature has changed to recommended. But in the mandatory standard GB 44498-2024, the detailed rules on noise testing methods fully refer to GB/T 19606-2024. Moreover, the corresponding noise limits in GB/T 19606-2024 fully adopt the values specified in GB 44498-2024, and the two are closely connected to jointly regulate household appliance noise.

02. Wide range of applicable products

GB/T 19606-2024 covers the noise limit requirements and testing methods for 19 categories of household products, and adds 13 categories of products on the basis of the old version of the standard. The specific differences in product categories are shown in the table below:

	GB 19606 - 2004 Old version	GB/T 19606 - 2024 New version
refrigerator	Refrigeration equipment
air conditioner	Room air conditioner
washing machine	washing machine
microwave oven	microwave oven
range hood	range hood
electric fan	electric fan
/	Waste food processor
/	Electric shaver
/	Indoor heater
/	humidifier
/	air purifier
/	vacuum cleaner
/	dishwasher
/	tumble dryers
/	electric massager
/	Electric food processing equipment
/	hair drier
/	Dry cleaning robot
/	Water dispenser treatment device

With the constraints of these two standards, the noise level of household appliances sold in the future market will be effectively controlled. For home appliance manufacturers, the implementation of the new standards is both a challenge and an opportunity. To meet the noise limit requirements, enterprises must increase research and development investment and actively explore advanced noise reduction technology processes.

The implementation of GB 44498-2024 and GB/T 19606-2024 has clarified the market access threshold, and products with excessive noise will not be legally sold in the market. This forces all enterprises to produce according to standards, regulate market competition order, make enterprises that focus on product quality and technological innovation stand out, and promote the healthy and orderly development of the entire home appliance industry.