Non-chlorine label phrase angers apparel manufacturers.

Daily News Record, April, 1984 by Kasten, Matthew

NEW YORK -- A brouhaba is taking place between the apparel industry and the Federal Trade Commission over an FTC requirement that care labels, when appropriate, carry a phrase that is making manufacturers blanch with anger.

The FTC's amended care labeling law, which went into effect in January, calls for the use of the phrase "only non-chlorine bleach, when needed" on labels where use of chlorine bleach would harm the product when used on a regular basis, but the identical use of a non-chlorine bleach would not.

The apparel industry objects to the phase on the grounds that it is confusing and akin to negative information. It would prefer to continue only with the warning agaisnt the use of chlorine bleach, where appropriate. If there is a chlorine...

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