You decide in the morning to put on the pretty black sweater bought the day before on sales and in the evening, removing it, you notice small red plates on your arms and shoulders.If you recognize yourself in this example of mishaps, rest assured, you are not alone.The National Health Safety Agency (ANSES) published on July 4, 2018 a report in which it explains that "cases of allergies and skin irritations related to clothes or shoes are regularly reported to it".This is why she recommends the consumer to wash, before wearing it for the first time, any clothing likely to come into contact with the skin.
Carcinogenic substances and endocrine disruptors
In this report, ANSES explains that it has carried out expertise in order to identify the chemicals likely to be present in new shoes and clothing and which can cause skin and irritations.To conduct this expertise, she made a review of the scientific literature, supplemented by trials on a sampling of new clothes taken From several points of sale and shoes that have resulted in customer complaints.In total, around twenty families of chemical substances have been sought in clothing and around fifty substances in the shoes.
"These analyzes have made it possible to adjust families of chemicals to seek and confirm, among other things, the presence of nonylphenols (Editor's note: endocrine disruptors), ethoxylate nonylphenols or formaldehyde (note: carcinogenic).They also made it possible to identify non-routine-analyzed substances, which can cause contact dermatitis such as the 1,4-Paraphenylèdiamine or organnantan derivatives, or nitrogen dyes ", details the agency.In addition, it analyzed articles carried by around thirty patients of allergists and suspected of being associated with their skin reactions.Benzidine (carcinogenic) symptoms, chrome 6, nickel, 4-terrtbutylformalformaldehyde (carcinogenic) are suspected of these symptoms (carcinogenic) symptoms, highly used in the textile world.In view of the first results of the study, the agency decided to continue its investigation into other patients until October 2018, and it will publish its new results later.
Some recommendations to authorities and textile professionals
ANSES recommends that authorities lower the regulatory threshold of chrome 6 in leather items, as it notes allergic reactions below the regulatory value, and to set a threshold for nickel in textiles.It asks managers of the marketing of textiles to ensure From their suppliers the absence of CMR (carcinogenic, mutagenous, toxic to reproduction) substances or products irritating the skin in their articles.
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