How many people will die because of the jeans you choose to buy?

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The Clean Clothes Campaign has launched an appeal on jeans producers to stop sandblasting their products. Sandblasting can cause an acute form of the deadly lung disease silicosis. The practise puts the lives of thousands of sandblasting operators at serious risk. It's often performed in small workshops in the informal sector in jeans-producing countries like Bangladesh, Egypt, China, Turkey, Brazil and Mexico. Almost all of the jeans sold in Europe are produced in these countries. In Turkey alone, 46 documented cases of sandblasters contracting silicosis and dying have been registered. This is likely to be only the tip of the iceberg.

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more here

http://cleanclothes.org/news/killer-jeans


Some retailers in UK are being pressed to stop selling these jeans.

news article on Metro.co.uk

Looks like The New York Daily News in February 2011 published article about Levi and H&M moving away from sandblasted jeans.