Photo: Warren McLaren / Inov8 Last week the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) advised it had sent out letters to 78 US retailers advising them to stop labelling clothing as being made from ‘bamboo.’ Any company that fails to correct its advertising and labeling may find the FTC imposing penalties of up to $16,000 per violation,

or as the FTC did last year suing four companies for falsely claiming that their clothing and other textile products were made of bamboo fibre. The Federal Trade Commission believe such claims are deceptive. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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US Consumer Watchdog Says Shoo to Bamboo Textiles