29 Jan Haglöfs Pulls Boot from Shelves Over Greenpeace
Haglöfs, the Swedish outdoor brand, withdrew its Grym hiking boot from stores after Greenpeace found high levels of the fluorocarbon PFOA in the boot in...
Product Safety
12 Jun Greenpeace Detox Resumes Focus on Outdoor Brands
Greenpeace has dispatched staff on an expedition to seven mountains around the world to collect water and snow samples and test them for PFCs as...
10 Jun Background on the Toxic Substances Control Act Modernization Act
Click here for information on the Senate version. H.R. 2576, The TSCA Modernization Act OBJECTIVES: - Modernize the decades-old Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to improve chemical safety...
26 Feb SCS Global to Promote Higgs Index
SCS Global Services (SCS), which provides third-party verification of environmental and social performance claims, has joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) as an affiliate member....
04 Sep VF Partners to Provide $10M for Bangladesh Factory Safety Improvements
VF Corporation, the parent of The North Face, Vans and Timberland, announced a collaboration with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World...
31 Mar President Obama Announces Nomination for New CPSC Chair
Elliot F. Kaye is the Executive Director of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), a position he has held since 2013. Previously at CPSC,...
14 Jan The Story About Toxic Monsters in Kids’ Shoes/Clothing, as Told by Greenpeace
On its website, the organization details that this investigation into what the environmentalists like to call the “toxic monsters” lurking in kids' clothing and footwear...
31 Dec Bangladesh orders arrest of factory owners for deadly fire
The court in Dhaka issued the warrants for Delwar Hossain and his wife Mahmuda Akter over the blaze in 2012 at the Tazreen factory, where...
05 Dec ecVision Hosts Retail Industry Event in Hong Kong: Covers Product Testing, Vendor Compliance and Sustainability
On February 18, 2014, ecVision will be facilitating an industry-wide event at the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong for apparel, footwear and other soft line...
23 Sep From Cary to Bangladesh: Fire-code inspector takes his skills overseas
Ayscue, 49, has flown three times this year to Bangladesh, where he has become something of a representative for American safety standards....