Cashmere Definition

THE WOOL PRODUCTS LABELING ACT OF 1939 - 15 U.S.C. § 68

§ 68b. Misbranded wool products

(a) False identification; affixation of label, etc., contents

A wool product shall be misbranded -

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(6) In the case of a wool product stamped, tagged, labeled, or otherwise identified as cashmere, if--

(A) such wool product is not the fine (dehaired) undercoat fibers produced by a cashmere goat (capra hircus laniger);

(B) the average diameter of the fiber of such wool product exceeds 19 microns; or

(C) such wool product contains more than 3 percent (by weight) of cashmere fibers with average diameters that exceed 30 microns.

The average fiber diameter may be subject to a coefficient of variation around the mean that shall not exceed 24 percent.

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