Adi Nike and others were detected toxic chemicals

Last week, a piece of news once again raised concerns about the quality of sports brand products. Adidas, Nike and other sports brands launched for the World Cup in Brazil were found to contain toxic chemicals. People cannot help asking why internationally famous brands are so insecure? Soon to the Children's Day of the International Children's Day, parents are also ready to give their children clothes, toys and other items as holiday gifts. Then, what issues should be paid attention to when buying products for children? In today's program, we invited Associate Professor Gong Yan of Beijing Institute of Fashion Materials and Zhang Xingyan, a lawyer of Beijing Zhongrun Law Firm, to discuss it with everyone.

The detected toxic substances are environmental toxicants. The World Cup will soon arrive, especially in the summer. Everyone needs to wear sportswear. In particular, the children will be more comfortable. The brands that are exposed are the first-line brands, Adi and Nike. With regard to the problem, we are very worried. In the end, what kind of substance is toxic? How is it defined? How big is the poison? Please ask Teacher Gong to introduce us.

Gong Yan: The poisons are graded. The exposed harmful substances are indeed detected in the clothes and there are remnants. However, this poison is environmental toxicity. It is not our common understanding, such as formaldehyde. It is immediately harmful to the body. . The vast majority of environmental toxicity is because it cannot be degraded in the environment, or because its persistent pollution causes changes in the long-term ecological or biological effects. Like this fluoride, if you touch it with your hands, you may not actually do much harm to the body. However, because this substance is difficult to degrade in the environment for a long time, it accumulates in the organism for a long time and it will cause some of the organism's reproduction and genetics. Teratogenicity or change is such a toxicity.

Below, let's take a look at how these toxic substances were specifically detected. Just as the World Cup commodities are hot, sports goods manufacturers are busy making a mark on the brand's momentum. A test report released by Greenpeace, an international environmental protection organization, shows that 81% of the World Cup sports goods purchased in 16 countries and regions worldwide And 35% of the jerseys were detected to contain residual toxic chemicals such as perfluorinated compounds and phthalates. Teacher Gong also told us about this. This is a factor of the environment. It does not mean that you may be poisoned by direct contact with it, but it is latent.

Gong Yan: This toxicity we divided from the biological toxicology, some are strong carcinogenic substances, such as formaldehyde, if you live in such an atmosphere, it will lead to cell cancer, cancer, teratogenic, including sensitization. This is all very sensitive. After touching this thing, there will be changes in the body. In addition to these, why is the earth warming up for such a long time, why are the biodiversity slowly decreasing? International environmental protection organizations have done some research in this area and found that because of the large amount of chemicals that we should not use in our industrial production. So this time this matter was exposed, first of all we have to affirm that this data must have its authenticity, but on the other hand do not immediately panic, think that how much harm will happen to each of us soon, these substances themselves will not even touch the skin immediately Injury, but to remind entrepreneurs in the industry, as well as including those engaged in research in this area, should take measures as soon as possible to find alternative chemicals and substances to solve the overall problem.

Direct contact injuries are not of concern but do not need to panic The specific data is collected from March to May of this year. This environmental protection organization has stores authorized by brand stores and brands in 16 countries (regions) including China, Korea, and the United Kingdom. It purchased 33 items from Adidas, Nike and Hummer, including soccer shoes, jerseys, goalkeeper gloves and official balls, and then sent them to a qualified third-party independent laboratory for analysis and testing. The test results showed that all the products of the three companies have residual toxic and hazardous substances such as perfluorinated compounds and phthalates in varying degrees. Among them, more than two-thirds of football shoes and more than half of goalkeeper gloves were detected in perfluorooctanoic acid. Such a high rate of detection and exceeding the standard rate, Professor Gong has also specifically mentioned that this problem exists in the production process, and whether these world-famous big names bear primary responsibility.