The Federal Trade Commission has warned 78 retailers that they are breaking the law by marketing clothes and other textiles as being made from bamboo when they are, in fact, manufactured from rayon — a man-made fiber created from the cellulose…
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Faithful readers of this blog might remember the Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuits against four makers of bamboo-derived clothing. The FTC accused the companies of making false, unsubstantiated claims that their…
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