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Nike And Other Well-Known Clothing Brand Suppliers Are Accused Of Emitting Environmental Hormone Substances.

2011/7/18 9:10:00 59

Nike Famous Clothing Brand Environmental Hormone

An environmental group has released a report, including Nike, Adidas, Lining [8.96 -4.68%] and other well-known clothing brand suppliers to the Chinese river to discharge environmental hormone substances.

The environmental group said that this is the latest fashion poison they have done -- the global clothing brand of China.

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Found in the survey.

The environmental group said the survey lasted more than 1 years, and all the data were sampled and investigated.

Since last spring, the environmental protection organization has sampled the waste water discharged from the YOUNGOR [10.34 -1.24% share textile industrial city in Ningbo, Zhejiang and Zhongshan Guotai dyeing and finishing Co., Ltd. in Zhongshan, Guangdong, and sent samples to the Greenpeace Research Laboratory of Exeter University, UK and the Holland Omegam independent environmental analysis laboratory.

It was found that the main toxic and harmful substances in waste water were nonylphenol (NP), perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA).

These substances interfere with the endocrine of organisms, are toxic to the reproductive system, and have an impact on the immune system and the liver.

Studies have shown that these substances are extremely harmful even if they are small in amount.

According to the environmental protection organization, these toxic and harmful substances have been carried out by the European Union, the United States and related international conventions.

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The Chinese government also included nonylphenol in the catalogue of toxic chemicals imported and exported by China strictly in January 2011.

In fact, the use of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and nonylphenol (NP) in the world is gradually decreasing, but its consumption is still increasing in China.

The environmental group demanded that these brands immediately commit themselves to eliminate and eliminate toxic and harmful substances that are used and discharged in their supply chain.

China's environmental situation bulletin in 2011 showed that 70% of China's rivers,

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And reservoirs are subject to varying degrees of pollution, of which 20% of organic pollutants are caused by industrial wastewater discharge.

The environmental protection organization says that as an important sector of China's economic development, the textile industry consumes a lot of persistent and hazardous chemicals, and becomes one of the main sources of water pollution.

They called on the Chinese government to establish a systematic chemical management system on the basis of precautionary principle so as to gradually reduce and eliminate the use and discharge of toxic and harmful substances.