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...large nationwide clothing manufacturers are selling winter parkas with fur trim described on the coats' labels as wolf fur at Cambridge and Boston area stores...
Kenneth A. Crossman, enforcement director of the Natural Resources Department, said yesterday that his department is testing the fur to determine whether it was coyote or wolf...
...Coop's statement came in response to an investigation by the Law Enforcement Division of the Massachusetts Department of Natural Resources. Enforcement officers were investigating charges that the Coop was violating the Massachusetts Endangered Species Act by the sale of illegal wolf fur...
...fur turns out to be coyote "this would be a very clear violation of the Fur Products Labeling Act," Altenbernd said. The Act, passed in 1951, states that "a fur product shall be considered misbranded if its label contains any form of misrepresentation." The Act gives the FTC authority to enforce the provision...
...also requires that any fur "shall be designated by the true English name." Wolf is not the true English name for coyote, Altenbernd said...