JAPAN: Fast Retailing to phase out hazardous chemicals

By Leonie Barrie | 9 January 2013

Fast Retailing Co, operator of the Uniqlo casual clothing chain and Asia's biggest global fashion brand, is to eliminate hazardous chemicals from its entire global supply chain and products by 2020.

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