Outdoor Brands Chase Performance with Safety

摘要

The image cultivated by the outdoor-clothing industry is to be at one with nature, or to challenge it - and in many cases its products make explicit environmental claims. However, a recent Greenpeace study identified perfluorinated and polyfluorinated chemicals (PFCs), and other chemicals believed to be hazardous, in women's and children's garments from several of the sector's leading brands.