To hightlight toxic chemicals in clothing?

[JudgeAnderson]

I've just read an article about the many possibly extremely harmful chemicals present in garments.
While this isn't a TAAT there was a discussion a couple of weeks ago where people who wash their clothes before wearing were dismissed by some posters as being silly, however it looks like there's good reason to do so, although some clothes are treated with items that won't necessarily wash out immediately such as anti-wrinkle treatments.

AIBU to agree with the writer that clothing, like food and toiletries/cosmetics, should be labelled properly so we as consumers can make more informed choices?

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Even the article was spectacularly hazy about whether particular chemicals and in what combinations and in what quantities are evidentially harmful and which there’s little evidence for or may just cause allergic reactions in a minority of people. Clothing manufacturers are going to - legitimately - be incredibly resistant to labelling their products as potentially harmful in the face of that level of haziness.

Tbh, when it comes to things like the stain resistant children’s wear and period pants mentioned in the article: I’d have thought it was fairly obvious that garments with the set of properties they claim are going to be full of fibres and chemicals with the potential to cause problems for some people and assumed most people just acknowledge and accept that.

In the 70s or whenever it was when they brought out flame proof clothing that’s all you bought for kids because it felt safer with coal fires and electric bar fires doing the heating if the home.

Now we find out about things in it being harmful it’s only a matter of time before we find out all the damage it can do and has done to us many decades ago. Let alone now!

Could account for various issues which seem more prevalent nowadays?