{"id":30213,"date":"2026-07-20T10:21:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/54-of-tested-tops-fail-eu-fibre-checks-in-68-bn-trade\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T10:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T10:21:22","slug":"54-of-tested-tops-fail-eu-fibre-checks-in-68-bn-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/54-of-tested-tops-fail-eu-fibre-checks-in-68-bn-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"54% of tested tops fail EU fibre checks in $68 bn trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.fibre2fashion.com\/Newsresource\/images\/311\/fibre-composition-testing-eu_323466.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<h3>\t<strong>The label is no longer small print<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p align=\"left\">\tEurope is building a textile rulebook around product-level data, but its latest enforcement campaign shows that one of the most basic fields cannot always be trusted. The European Commission\u00a0tested <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> clothing products and found that <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> carried fibre information that did not match the garment. Some products contained different, cheaper fibres from those declared.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\tNatural-artificial blends failed <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per cent of tests, compared with <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per cent for natural-fibre blends and <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per cent for products labelled as a single natural fibre. Online purchases failed <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per cent of checks, against <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> per cent for shop purchases. Authorities stopped sales of <span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> products, while many non-EU\/EFTA imports lacked basic manufacturer information, complicating enforcement and recalls.<\/p>\n<h3>\t<strong>$<span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span><span class=\"startxt\">*<\/span> billion sits in the highest-risk category<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&#13;\n        <ph name=\"Courtsey\"\/>&#13;\n    <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fibre2fashion.com\/news\/apparel-news\/54-of-tested-tops-fail-eu-fibre-checks-in-68-bn-trade-311878-newsdetails.htm\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The label is no longer small print Europe is building a textile rulebook around product-level data, but its latest enforcement campaign shows that one of the most basic fields cannot always be trusted. The European Commission\u00a0tested *** clothing products and found that ** carried fibre information that did not match the garment. Some products contained&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}