你的運動服竟是有毒的

Sweat it out: could your sportswear be toxic?

運動後，你的運動服竟是有毒的？

It might be hard to imagine that exercise could be harming your health. It turns out that even while you are doing something healthy, what you are wearing while doing it could be cause for concern. Public health advocates, including Greenpeace and European regulatory bodies that oversee chemical safety, are becoming increasingly concerned by evidence that shows a possible link between sportswear and health issues such as cancer, obesity and developmental disabilities. While toxic chemicals are a longstanding issue in various types of apparel, sportswear presents a particular problem because sweat and friction can prompt more rapid absorption of toxins into the body.

也許對於你來說很難以想象，能會損傷你的身體。然而研究證明當你正在進行鍛鍊的時候，你的穿着可能會引發上述的擔心。包括綠色和平組織和歐洲化學安全性監管機構監管在內的公共健康倡導者，越來越關注證據顯示的運動和健康問題如癌症、肥胖和發育問題之間的聯繫。而有毒的化學物質則是長期存在於不同服裝中的一個問題，運動服也因爲因爲運動的汗水和摩擦可以促進更快速的吸收到體內毒素引發了一個新的問題。

Greenpeace released a report last month cataloguing how apparel companies are failing to regulate the chemicals in the sportswear they Greenpeace report comes after a slew of research over the past few years highlighting the potential health risks of various chemicals used in sportswear- primarily dyes, solvents, and polyfluorinated chemicals (PFCs), which make items water, grease and stain-proof.

上個月綠色和平組織發佈的一份報告中，登記了服裝公司未能調節他們製造的運動服化學品含量（的問題）。綠色和平組織的報告是基於過去的幾年中的一系列的研究的，突出強調了各種化學品在用做運動服主要染料、溶劑、和用於潤滑和防鏽的氟化合物（PFCs)的使用中帶來的潛在健康風險。

In Greenpeace’s report it promoted Adidas from “greenwasher” to “trendsetter” and bestowed the less complimentary “greenwasher” title on Nike. Following earlier findings by Greenpeace about Adidas’s previous poor performance, the company sat down with Greenpeace and committed to eliminating hazardous chemicals by 2020 and being 99% PFC-free by 2017. Manfred Santen, toxics campaigner for Greenpeace International in Germany, called this “a big step in the right direction”. Nike spokesperson Greg Rossiter responded to the report by saying their own greenwasher title is undeserved. He said that the company phased out long-chain PFCs at the beginning of this year, requiring that all materials meet the standards laid out in Nike’s Restricted Substances List.

綠色和平組織的報告推動了阿迪達斯從“漂綠者”成爲了“潮人”的進程，卻未授予尼克“漂綠者”的稱號。綠色和平組織早期研究發現，阿迪達斯的前期表現不佳。該公司與綠色組織的談判中，同意致力於到2020年止減少有害化學物質的使用，到2017年止99%不含氟化合物。德國國際綠色和平組織污染防治項目主任曼弗雷德參天，稱這是“一個大方向正確的步驟”。耐克發言人格雷戈羅斯特迴應說自己命名爲漂綠者的的標題不當。他說，在今年年初公司淘汰長鏈氟化合物，要求所有材質均符合耐克的受限物質清單的標準。

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