SHANGHAI, Feb 18 – Students in 21 primary and middle schools in east China’s Shanghai were told to stop wearing their uniforms on Monday after a toxic dye was found in the products of a local garment firm, Xinhua news agency reported. In a recent quality inspection campaign, the cancer causing aromatic amine dye was detected in one batch of student uniforms produced in July last year by the Shanghai Ouxia garment company, the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision said.
Six batches of the company’s clothing products were found to be substandard. The company has been one of a number of school uniform producers in Shanghai in the last five years. Education authorities in the Pudong New Area of Shanghai said they have demanded all schools that have purchased uniforms from Ouxia to advise students to stop wearing them. The company, which has stopped production, sold 15,000 school uniforms annually.
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