Textile complaint

Press, 9 March 1984, Page 3

Textile complaint

NZPA staff correspondent Washington Textile manufacturers in the United States are cheating. Recent tests, according to the National Wool Growers’ Association, show that some items labelled “80 per cent wool” contain only 10 per cent natural fibres. Mr Norman Rousselot, chairman of the board of the N.W.G.A., pointed out that “people are paying premium prices and think they are getting a quality wool product when, in fact, they are buying an inferior

item. They formulate a i negative opinion of wool not knowing they have a polyesi ter product.” The N.W.G.A. says that the Federal Trade Commis- » sion “won’t pay any atten- ’ tion to us” because the i American sheep industry is so small. Almost any magazine or catalogue, it says, will have synthetic products extolling the virtues of wool. “In most cases, the advertising implies that the synthetic product possesses these qualities, even though they don’t,” the association says.