Lining And Other Clothing Brands Are Found To Be Toxic And Can Cause Precocious Puberty.

I heard that drinking milk powder can lead to precocious puberty. It is not expected that wearing sportswear will also get out of this condition.

Greenpeace, an international environmental group, said yesterday in its report on the investigation of toxic and harmful substances in global brand clothing.

"From April to May this year, we procured 15 green peace in 18 countries, including China, Britain and Argentina.

Zhang Kai told reporters that NPE is often used as a surfactant in textile production and will be rapidly decomposed into nonylphenol (NP) when discharged into the environment.

NP is a recognized environmental hormone, which simulates estrogen, has an effect on the sexual development of organisms, and interferes with the endocrine of organisms, and is toxic to reproductive system.

At the same time, NP can accumulate in the organism through the food chain. Therefore, research shows that even if the concentration of emission is very low, it is also very harmful.

"In the most popular terms, there is a positive correlation between NPE intake and precocious puberty. At the same time, experiments have shown that this environmental hormone can lead to feminization of male fish.

In the experiment of white rats, scientists found that the male testicles produced by long term intake of NPE were much smaller than normal.

Zhang Kai said.

It is understood that in view of the harm of NPE and NP to the human body and environment, the EU promulgated the "REACH regulation" in 2005 to prohibit its use in the textile production industry.

At the beginning of this year, the Chinese government added NPE and NP to the catalogue of toxic chemicals that China strictly restricted imports and exports.

"But what we can't understand is that the Chinese government forbids the export of clothing containing NPE, but allows it to produce and sell in the domestic market.

China has not issued any corresponding regulations on the use and discharge of NPE in China.

Zhang Kai said he hoped the Chinese government could introduce relevant regulations as soon as possible to regulate the use of NPE.

Yesterday afternoon, Lining (China) Sporting Goods Co., Ltd. spokesman Zhang Xiaoyan in an interview with our reporter, said that after the release of green peace report, Li Ning Co quickly organized personnel to conduct an investigation.

The survey found that the content of NPE in all clothing products of Li Ning Co is absolutely consistent with the EU standard. "Greenpeace" released its sampling product inspection report including Lining clothing brand. The NPE content of 4 pieces of Lining products was 680 mg / kg, 9.8 milligram / kg, 7.1 mg / kg, 2.8 mg / kg respectively, all in line with EU REACH standard.

The staff of the public relations department of Adidas Beijing office told the Beijing media that the matter was not clear.