"It is now time for companies to move beyond vague promises, business-as-usual self-regulatory schemes and rhetoric, " said Ineke Zeldenrust, director of Clean Clothes Campaign, a garment workers-rights group that helped hammer out the accord.
Noah Perin, a commercialization officer at global health NGO PATH, says that if clinicians clean the NASG properly, they can use one garment more than 40 times.