Sports Brand Clothes Contain Toxic Products For A Long Time, Adidas Promises Rectification

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Adidas, the world's second largest sportswear manufacturer, has come to a stage conclusion with the environmental group's seesaw battle on "toxic clothing" Adidas.

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Adidas, the world's second largest sportswear manufacturer, has come to a stage conclusion with the environmental group's seesaw battle on "toxic clothing" Adidas.

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Last month, the P has just released a new batch of toxicological reports for inspection products.

The report shows: "the main sponsors of the world cup in Brazil, Adidas, Nike and Puma products contain a variety of toxic and harmful chemicals."

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< p > recently, the a href= "http://sjfzxm.com/pioneer/" > Adidas < /a > issued a formal statement on the problem of various chemical toxins residues that the parties have been questioning for three years.

"As a pioneer of textile chemicals management, the company will start from the two aspects of the public's right to know and the elimination of perfluorocarbon, and carry out its poison pledge."

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At the same time, the company gave a timetable for rectification -- "late January 1, 2015, eliminating the use of long chain perfluorocarbon (PFC)" P.

Before June 15, 2014, 90% of its products are guaranteed to be free of PFC, and 99% products will not be PFC before December 31, 2017. "

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< p > at present, the sports clothes questioned by environmental protection organizations contain three main toxic ingredients, namely, nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether (NPE), o-phthalate two formic acid (commonly known as plasticizer) and perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), which include perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and long chain perfluorocarbon (PFC) and other toxic substances.

Adidas's high-profile rectification plan involves only one of the major toxins.

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In the past three years, a group of environmental organizations has conducted many inspections of sports brands at home and abroad. Adidas is by no means the only one with the largest list of drugs on the list. P

Including the world's largest sportswear manufacturers Nike (Nike), Puma (Puma), Lining, Kappa, CONVERSE (Converse), North (North Face), and casual wear brand A&F (Abercrombie & Fitch), G-Star, YOUNGOR and many other brands have been on the list, but at present, they have not followed up the announcement of the technical rectification period, or even have not acknowledged that the process is flawed.

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< p > < strong > Adidas rectification process < /strong > < /p >

< p > taking PFC as an example, most of the waterproofing techniques in functional clothing need to use these chemicals < /p >

"P > Adidas's garment manufacturing process has also become the first enterprise in the sports apparel industry to provide a timetable for eliminating toxic ingredients.

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< p > in fact, since 2011, an environmental protection organization has repeatedly shouted against the harmful effects of toxic substances in large sports clothes.

In May, the group released a toxicological report on the new batch of inspection products.

The report shows: "the main sponsors of the world cup in Brazil, Adidas, Nike and Puma products contain a variety of toxic and harmful chemicals.

More than 80% sneakers and 50% gloves samples contained perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), and 61% samples showed nonylphenol polyoxyethylene ether (NPE). All the shoes were tested for o-benzoic acid two formic acid and the first test of two methyl formamide (DMF).

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< p > take PFC as an example. Sportswear is still widely used in fluorine containing chemicals because most of the waterproof technology in functional clothing is required to use such chemicals.

NPE, as a surfactant, is also widely used in the textile industry.

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< p > PFC these components are trace, but the environmental toxins that are harmful to the environment are difficult to degrade and bioaccumulate. They can enter the body through air, drinking water and food, or cause chronic diseases such as fertility decline, immune dysfunction, thyroid diseases and so on.

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< p > < strong > but under the pressure of public opinion, the progress of the reform of the giants is not fast.

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"P," a local garment industry veteran, told the twenty-first Century economic news reporter: "from the exposure of drug-related technology to the timetable of the first enterprise, the major clothing giants have been stalling for three years without delay. From the period of rectification given by Adidas, this toxin will disappear from the public clothing at least for another three years, which is still the ideal state."

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< p > some consumers and environmental organizations began to accuse the above toxic substances in 2011. In the same year, Adidas and Nike were accepted by the two companies. The two had promised to eliminate chemicals from their respective production lines.

But three years have passed, and the result of toxicological inspection is still the same. This has also led to environmental protests from various parts of the world, including Germany, Hungary and Russia.

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P, Adidas has further pparency in information disclosure in addition to launching the elimination plan involving PFC garment technology. The company will disclose 99% of its wet FGD information in China on the relevant platform by the end of this year, and by the end of 2015, it will disclose 50% of all wet FGD in the global supply chain through the relevant platform of the public environmental research center.

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< < > > P > difficulties in the industry rectification, the three problems of extensive foundry, cost pressure and standard lag are particularly prominent. < /p >

Except for the long time of rectification, the "toxic clothing" from the extensive scope of enterprises and the slack attitude of enterprises in the rectification attitude have shown the general lack of cooperation in the whole industry. "P"

Fang Wei speaks frankly.

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Nike, which has a sales income of 25 billion US dollars, has an annual revenue of US $20 billion, Adidas, which accounts for 70% of the total market share of soccer products only in P.

At that time, Adidas and Nike were under pressure to eliminate the toxic Nike from the production process. After three years, no actual rectification progress and plan were given.

Puma and CONVERSE, the top five sportswear brands that occupy more than 90% of the world's market, remain silent today.

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The situation of local clothing brands is also not optimistic, < p >.

In 2011, in an inspection report of an environmental protection organization, two products of Lining and YOUNGOR were detected 680 and 190 mg / kg NPE respectively, which were higher than those of similar products.

YOUNGOR responded that the report was inconsistent with the facts, but did not give further evidence.

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< p > people in related industries pointed out that at present, the three major problems in the industry rectification difficulties are widespread foundry, cost pressure and standard lag.

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< p > a number of industry channels have confirmed to reporters that whether overseas brands or local brands, the company's external recognition or acquiescence in China's foundry enterprises is numerous, mostly concentrated in the southern coastal areas and Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

Most of them have many large brands, and the difference between the actual production process and the environmental standards is small.

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< p > international apparel industry is currently using paraffin, dendritic compounds and silicones for alternatives to PFC components.

However, in actual operation, most enterprises often appear inadequate.

"Changing the production process means increasing the cost and complicating the process. These enterprises are hard pressed to take the initiative under the pressure of profit."

Fang Wei said.

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< p > media reports have said that in order to reduce the pressure of public opinion, some sportswear manufacturers claim that they do not use polyester fiber membrane containing PFC, but they continue to use this component to make clothing on the exterior coating of clothing.

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< p > Adidas abandons PFC garment technology. Now no other companies have followed up.

In terms of the toxin NPE involved in another garment technology, the sampling and industry standards in the Chinese market have reduced the potential risk of illegal business.

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In 2003, the European Union promulgated relevant regulations, and banned the use of NPE clothing and other products in 2005.

Two years ago, China also included NPE products in China's list of strictly restricted import and export of toxic chemicals. However, there was no restriction on the circulation of non imported products produced in China.

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< p > Lian Peiyi, director of Greenpeace project, said: "there are different management systems in different regions to make chemical monitoring difficult to carry out effectively.

At present, many toxic substances do not have the maximum residue limits, or the safety standards of many consumer products fail to effectively protect consumers from endocrine disruptors.

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