STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSES MOUTH

Information extracted straight from the horses mouth.

Here is a list of ingredients Nike, Adidas, Puma and Li-Ning use to make their sportswear apparel.

1. Phthalates (ortho-phthalates)

2. Brominated and Chlorinated flame retardants

3. Banned Azo dies

4. Organotin Compounds (e.g., TBT)

5. Chlorobenzenes

6. Chlorinated Solvents

7. Chlorophenols

8. Short-Chained Chlorinated Paraffins (SCCP’s)

9. Heavy Metals; Lead, Chromium, Nickel, Antimony

10. AlkylPhenol Ethoxylates/ AlkylPhenols (APEO’s / AP’s)

11. Perfluorinated Chemicals (PFCs)

If you are slightly uneasy about buying apparel filled with toxic heavy metals and chemicals for your children to wear when playing sport, here is your opportunity to contact the leading brands and ask them to find safer alternatives or at the very least provide consumers with information to enable them to avoid certain toxic ingredients.

How many of you really want to buy sports shirts for Christmas for your loved ones which contain for example; highly toxic Lead?

Some sports shirts contain lead, but others do not. How are you to know which ones are lead free when you are kept in the dark by your favourite brands.

Well now you can ask them;

Adidas Group:

Katja Schreiber

Katja.Schreiber@adidas-group.com

Li-Ning:

Wei Li

Wei3.li@li-ning.com.cn

NIKE:

Del Hudson

delhudson@nike.com

PUMA:

Kerstin Neuber
Kerstin.Neuber@puma.com

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