Earlier this month we reported that H&M was destroying clothes now it's their--not so--organic cotton fabrics making headlines. The German edition of the Financial Timesnewspaper has uncovered an alleged organic cotton fraud by European brands H&M,C&A, and Tchibo. According to Lothar Kruse, a director of the independent testing laboratory Impetus in Bremerhaven, "30% of the tested samples" of organic cotton fabric contained genetically modified (GM) cotton, EcoTextile News reports:
Sanjay Dave, head of the Indian agricultural authority, Apeda, told the newspaper that the level of fraud is on "a gigantic scale." EcoTextile News reports, below. Read more at treehugger.com
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