Carefully plastic toys change to a toxic lollipop
Popular children’s toys made of plastic waste
Waste plastics are often used to make children’s toys, environmentalists have long warned that some chemicals can not be filtered out to the children, harmful, and that animal studies show that these chemicals can cause birth defects, cancer and developmental abnormalities. Chemical plants, and toy manufacturers oppose these warnings, they quote the classics that the plastic is safe.
Neutralist and academic research provides new evidence. 1999, the European Union banned certain plastic toys, more than half of the country and the EU legislative bodies are considering the development of relevant laws.
Debate on the center of the family of plastic products is a substance called phthalates, which are often used to soften vinyl, bisphenol A (BPA), two chemicals used to prevent the fragmentation of plastic products.
Phthalates with a variety of diseases
We all know that the so-called endocrine disorder, it interferes with the regulation of estrogen and androgen hormones. Hundreds of animal experiments show that phthalates with prostate cancer, breast cancer, genital abnormalities, puberty attacks and diabetes. Recently, studies have shown that phthalates also affect humans. Regular publications, “Environmental Health Health Watch” an article published last year, from Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and experts from several universities found that boys higher levels of phthalates, which is likely to change reproductive development, but also with incomplete testicular decline. Harvard School of Public Health study showed that men high levels of phthalates, will reduce the number of sperm damage in sperm DNA.
They nursery children’s toys in a row, with colorful candy, you can take a bath rubber ducks, teething ring to bite the plastic, you can bite with the teeth with the clutch of books … …
Parents go to the store when shopping for children, if they think the toys on the shelves 100% safe, we can not blame anything. But why a San Francisco City last week for children under three years old ban on certain plastic toys? Why are activists warning shoppers of these toys?
“Chewing teeth to eat poisonous lollipop stick is,” Rachel Gibson, California, environmentalists said.
Manufacturer: plastic toys unfair restrictions
American Chemistry Council (ACC) said on behalf of manufacturers, from the scientific terms, the restrictions on the toy is not fair. “The EU seeks to limit the experiment found that rats with high doses, side effects have a strong product”, ACC of the Mary Stanford, said: “Many essential products are used high doses of toxic substances in the original to do, but this does not means to reach consumers in the hands of end products are toxic. “As the body of phthalates in recent experimental study, she said, a strong purpose, or that a little too far. Meanwhile, toy companies cited the Consumer Product Safety Commission in 2001 concluded that the jury, they have found used to soften vinyl toys, phthalates are harmful to the body produced.
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