MATURE MARKETS PROTECT CLOTHING AND TEXTILE CONSUMERS AGAINST HARM FROM INDUSTRY PRODUCTS
August 1st, 2010
BY ALAN OSBORN, KARRYN MILLER, GAVIN BLAIR, KEITH NUTHALL
WEARING clothes is not the most dangerous of pastimes: it is not really up there with hang-gliding, off-piste skiing and single-handed ocean yachting. But there are risks associated with wearing clothes, from the contact consumers and workers' skin has with the chemicals used in production; to potential for strangulation by drawstrings, choking on toggles, and the flammability of some artificial fibres. Then there is the growing concern about the use of nanoparticles in all consumer products and calls ...
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