Chemicals that cause concern

Nursery World, 28 October 2004

By Mary Taylor, safer chemicals campaigner at Friends of the Earth No doubt the children in your care like to play with toys they put in their mouths and maybe you've bought some soft plastic ones the babies like to chew on. But then you find out that some toys are made from a form of PVC made with chemicals called phthalates (pronounced 'thallates').

By Mary Taylor, safer chemicals campaigner at Friends of the Earth No doubt the children in your care like to play with toys they put in their mouths and maybe you've bought some soft plastic ones...

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