Your new clothes retain chemicals that could harm our health
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 24-10-2015
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An initial analysis found thousands of chemicals in the clothes and around a hundred chemicals were preliminary identified. Several of the substances were not on the producers' lists and were suspected to be by-products, residues or chemicals added during transport. "Exposure to these chemicals increases the risk of allergic dermatitis, but more severe health effect for humans as well as the environment could possibly be related to these chemicals. Some of them are suspected or proved carcinogens and some have aquatic toxicity," said study author Giovanna Luongo from Stockholm University in Sweden.