AITEX - Pakistan is a liaison office of a Spanish Textile Research & Certification company. We are the only official representative of the Oeko-Tex Association in Pakistan. The Oeko-Tex Standard 100 was introduced at the beginning of the 1990s as a response to the needs of consumers and the general public for textiles which posed no risk to health. "Poison in textiles" and other negative headlines were widespread at this time and indiscriminately branded all chemicals across the board used in textile manufacturing as negative and dangerous to health.

The demands we make of modern textile products cannot be realized without the use of specific chemical substances, however. Fashionable colors, easy-care properties, a long life span and many other functional properties are now demanded of textiles, and are essential in some cases, depending on the intended use (e.g. for workwear).

Up until the introduction of the Oeko-Tex Standard 100 there was neither a reliable product label for consumers to assess the human ecological quality of textiles nor a uniform safety standard for companies within the textile and clothing industry which enabled a practical assessment of potential harmful substances in textile products. The Austrian Textile Research Institute (�TI) and the German Hohenstein Research Institute therefore jointly developed the Oeko-Tex Standard 100 on the basis of their existing test standards.