Plucking allegation 'inaccurate'

A foreign report claiming Chinese firms pluck live birds to get their down is "inaccurate", a trade association said yesterday.

Swedish TV4's Cold Facts reported that 50 to 80 percent of the down produced in China comes from live birds, and that 90 percent of the Chinese firms investigated admitted plucking birds while they were still alive.

The China Feather & Down Industrial Association told a press conference the report "distorted the facts".