The National Wool Declaration (NWD) enables woolgrowers to promote their animal welfare practices (i.e. mulesing status) and the Dark and Medullated Fibre Risk (DMFR) of their wool to wool exporters, processors and retailers. The NWD is the standardised declaration method for Australian woolgrowers. It is applicable to all breeds of sheep and is operated by the Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX).
The Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act, commonly known as the New York Fashion Act, is a proposed law that would apply to fashion and apparel companies which sell in New York state with annual revenues of at least $100 million.
Nirapon is a self-regulatory body that provides factory building and fire safety monitoring, oversight and reporting services in Bangladesh for its members.
The non-profit Nordic ‘Swan’ Ecolabel is a voluntary license designed to help companies make and indicate products to the consumer that are more sustainable. It is the official ecolabel for the Nordic countries with the EU Flower as its EU equivalent. A revision process was updated in January 2022.
The Oeko-Tex Standard 100, introduced in 1992, is a global uniform testing and certification system for textile raw materials, intermediate products, and end products at all stages of production. Textile products are certified according to Oeko-Tex Standard 100 only if all components meet the required criteria without exception.
Based on the Detox campaign launched by Greenpeace in 2011 (and mothballed in 2019), this tool aims to exclude the 13 potentially hazardous chemicals from textile production called out by the environmental NGO.
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