Oeko-Tex
standard
Oeko-Tex is a registered trade mark of the International Association for Research and Testing in the Field of Textile and Leather Ecology. It is used to represent the product labels and company certificates issued by the Association.
Oeko-Tex labels and certificates confirm the safety of textile products and leather articles from all stages of production. Some also attest to social and environmental conditions in production facilities.
History
The Oeko-Tex Association was founded in March 1992 by the Austrian Textile Research Institute (now OETI - Institut fuer Oekologie, Technik und Innovation) and the German Hohenstein Institute. The Swiss textile testing institute Testex joined in 1993. Other European and Asian testing and research institutes joined in the following years. In 2016, the association reached its current membership count of 17.
In the first year of operation, Oeko-Tex launched Oeko-Tex Standard 100, which emerged from an earlier label developed by OETI in 1989. In 1995, Oeko-Tex Standard 1000 was launched, which included sustainability aspects, followed by Oeko-Tex Standard 100plus, which also examined production processes.
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