Plasticizers Also known as plasticizers, the chemical name Phthalates is a group of compounds that are primarily used in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) materials to make PVC from a hard plastic to a flexible Plastic, play a plasticizer (plastic added to increase plastic elasticity of the material) role. It is widely used in toys, food packaging, medical blood bags and hoses, vinyl flooring and wallpaper, cleaners, lubricants, personal care products, and hundreds of products such as nail polish, hair sprays, soaps and shampoos in. The most common species is DEHP (industrially commonly known as DOP). DEHP chemical name is di (2-ethyl) hexyl phthalate, is a colorless, odorless liquid. The Taiwan manufacturers with a common industrial plasticizer DEHP instead of palm oil used as a food additive cloud agent, can be considered a counter-example unscrupulous merchant fraud.
Phthalates Phthalates Hazard
According to the latest research in Germany, many cosmetics, toys, and food packaging have a hazardous chemical Phthalate. Research shows that global reductions in the number of male sperm over the past few decades may be linked to the chemical phthalates widely used as softeners in the light industry. This substance is widely found in cosmetics, children's toys, food packaging, if its content is excessive, will have a great harm to human health. Studies have shown that phthalates in humans and animals play a similar role of estrogen can interfere with endocrine, so that men reduce the amount of sperm and sperm count, sperm motility is low, abnormal sperm morphology, can cause severe testicular cancer , Is the "culprit" that caused men's reproductive problems. In cosmetics, nail polish contains the highest amount of phthalates, many aromatic ingredients of cosmetics also contain the substance. This substance in cosmetics enters the body through the respiratory system and skin of women, which, if used in excess, increases the risk of breast cancer in women and the reproductive system of their future baby boy.
Phthalates are often found in those materials?
Phthalates are a class of chemicals that can soften. It is widely used in toys, food packaging, medical blood bags and hoses, vinyl flooring and wallpaper, cleaners, lubricants, personal care products, and hundreds of products such as nail polish, hair sprays, soaps and shampoos in.
Toy phthalates content limit instructions
With people's understanding of Phthalates (phthalates), children's products in the phthalates more and more attention. The EU formally decided in 1999 to strictly restrict the content of phthalates in mouth-contact toys (such as baby pacifiers) and other children's products used by children under three years of age in the EU member states. Experts have found that soft plastic toys containing phthalates and children's products may be placed in the mouth by children, if placed long enough, it will lead to the dissolution of phthalates over the safety level will be harmful Children's liver and kidneys can also cause precocious puberty in children.
EU Directive 2005/84 / EC on the restriction of phthalates in toys and childcare articles entered into force on January 16, 2007, and all EU member states have placed the Directive on July 16, 2007 Into their own laws, January 16, 2008 came into effect their respective laws.
According to the directive, child care products are any products that help children sleep, relax, maintain hygiene, and who feed or give children a suck, including various types and types of nipples.
Restriction of Phthalates on Directive 2005/84 / EC:
● Class 3 phthalates (DEHP, DBP and BBP) contained in plastic for toys or childcare articles must not exceed 0.1%.
● Toys and childcare articles with DEHP, DBP and BBP concentrations over 0.1% may not be sold on the EU market.
● Children can put toys and childcare articles in their mouths. The plastic content of the three types of phthalates (DINP, DIDP and DNOP) should not exceed 0.1%.
● DINP, DIDP and DNOP concentration of more than 0.1% of toys and child care products, may not be sold in the EU market.
● Obviously, the limits on the contents of DEHP, DBP and BBP will affect all toys and childcare articles, not just the toys and childcare articles that children can put in their mouths because the official risk assessment rated the three categories of substances as Class II reproductive toxicants). On the other hand, the directive states that there is insufficient or controversial scientific evidence regarding DINP, DIDP and DNOP. The EU therefore adopts the precautionary principle that it restricts the role of DINP, DIDP and DNOP based on possible risks rather than actual risks, but the restrictions are more relaxed.
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