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Greenpeace criticises industry’s move towards short-chained PFCs

08/01/2014

Greenpeace has published an update to its report on chemicals found in outdoor apparel, Chemistry for Any Weather – Part II, in which it says short-chained perfluorocarbonic acids (PFCs) “are not an appropriate substitute” for long-chain PFCs and in fact “less well-researched, but potentially just as bad”. It said: “From the 15 jackets and two...

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