US: Retailers warned for mislabelling rayon as “bamboo”
Author: just-style.com | 9 February 2010
Retailers including Wal-Mart, The Gap, JC Penney and Land's End are among 78 companies who have been warned by US regulators they may be breaking the law by selling clothing labelled as being made from "bamboo" when it is actually manufactured from rayon fibre.
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