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December 6, 2007
News Flash! Vinyl toys contain vinyl, and probably phthalates
Some more pseudoscience has emerged from the the Ecology Center, this time not on automobiles but on toys, which are a sure way to get a headline these days.
The Center tested a bunch of toys, including, we presume, a bunch made out of soft vinyl, and has announced darkly that the vinyl toys have vinyl in them! Vinyl, it goes on to say, is bad - a statement directly refuted by the Consumer Product Safety Commission's four year study of vinyl toys which concluded that they presented "no demonstrated health risk" to children. It also assumed that the vinyl toys were made flexible with phthalates, which is probably true, but again, so what? Vinyl toys containing a particular phthalate are precisely what the CPSC studied. So, this report seems to be telling us exactly what we already knew, then drawing conclusions that a real scientific review dismissed. So we ask, where is the news?
Posted by Marian at December 6, 2007 4:25 PM