A study was conducted to evaluate the quality of the leather from five different cultivars (Red Fleshed, Allahabad Safeda, Lucknow-49, Chittidar, Apple Colour of guava. Leather quality was also observed using three different recipes for its preparation. The study revealed that organoleptic quality (i.e. colour, flavour, taste, texture and overall acceptability) of leather decreased gradually wi...

Little is known about the epidemiology of contact dermatitis (CD) in the Chinese clothing industry. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and some risk factors of contact dermatitis among clothing manufacturing employees in Beijing.This cross-sectional study was conducted by interview using self-administered questionnaires and skin examination between May and August in 2016. Five-hundr...

A sustainability-oriented innovation (SOI) in the leather-making process is key for inducing a sustainable shift leather supply chain. Fashion an industry that highly vulnerable to sustainability disruptions and, at same time, as fertile ground SOIs. As result of increasing pressures from market, several fashion brands have started recognize potential SOIs induce positive transformation whole T...

Organic solvents are chemically different compounds with one common feature: They dissolve fats, oils, resins, cellulose, acetate, and cellulose nitrate, which makes them widely used in industry. Most often organic solvents are used in paint and lacquer industries, in production of pesticides, explosives, plastic, rubber, cellulose, air conditioners, in pharmaceutical industry, and in leather i...

Strength is an important property of leather. However the structural basis of strength in leather is not well understood. We have used synchrotron based small angle X-ray scattering to investigate the structure and strength of collagen materials under a variety of conditions. This enables changes in the extent of orientation of the collagen fibrils to be quantified and the internal stress on th...

OBJECTIVES To examine the cancer risk of shoe manufacturing workers and evaluate whether the risk was associated with exposure to leather dust and solvents. METHODS Data from two historical cohort studies of shoe workers were expanded and analysed in parallel. A total of 4215 shoemakers from England contributing 103 726 person-years at risk and 2008 shoemakers from Florence, Italy, contributi...

Chrome salt utilization in tanning industry become spread over the world owing to its preferred quality leather industry. However, Environmental concerns of chromium have shifted interest current research metal-free and friendly processing options. Vegetable tanning, been proven be environmentally safe manageable, while producing good with similar characteristics as that tanned leather. So, obj...