The Association of Conscious Buyers would extend the bisphenol content restriction to clothing

The association, which wants to prevent toxic substances from entering consumer goods at the EU level, carried out an investigation within the framework of the ToxFree LIFE for All international project, which revealed dangerous, hormone-damaging bisphenol compounds in clothes.

It is explained in the announcement: the bisphenol compound family is one of the chemicals produced in the largest quantities in the world. It is most often a component of polycarbonate plastics and resins, but it is also used as an additive.

Numerous studies on bisphenol A have proven that even in very low doses it can disrupt the functioning of the hormonal system, thereby adversely affecting growth, cell regeneration, fetal development, and energy levels

– the association points out.

Bisphenols are also used as color fixing agents in textiles. Around the world, 80 percent of synthetic polyamide textiles receive a color retention treatment, as do, for example, spandex and elastane products. The color preservative mixtures contain bisphenol S and bisphenol F, which are inevitably present as residues in the products – they emphasize.

The Association of Conscious Buyers undertook to assess the bisphenol content in a product that everyone uses and that comes into contact with the skin all day: underwear.

The test was carried out in an accredited international laboratory, during which 166 types of underwear were tested, slightly more than 100 of which are easily available and available in Hungary.