Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
From the Wire: Scientists have published the first report on a new way of preventing potentially harmful plasticisers — the source of long-standing human health concerns — from migrating from one of the most widely used groups of plastics. The advance could lead to a new generation of polyvinyl chloride ...
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Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
The next health scare involving plastics likely will be over the use of phthalates, according to a recent article on ZDNet. The plasticisers are used in medical tubing, dialysis bags, clothing and building materials. While BPA is made by condensing phenol and acetone in the presence of an acid, phthalates ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
At the Medical Moulding & Extrusion Conference in Cologne, Germany, last month I learned about plasticizers, PVC, DEHP, TEHTM, polyolefins, and more. Aside from how DEHP-plasticized PVC influences the blood, its negative health effects, and how difficult it is to replace, I heard about something else relating to plastics that ...
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