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The Toy Manufacturer's Side Of The Story
To learn the toy industry's position on phthalates, visit the Toy Manufacturers Association Web site, www.toy-tma.com. You can read the EC report, "Phthalate Migration from Soft PVC Toys and Child-care Articles (opinion expressed at the Scientific Committee for Toxicity, Ecotoxicity and the Environment Third Plenary Meeting, Brussels, April 24, 1998)" at europa.eu.int/comm/dg24/health/sc/ncomm8/out12_en.html.
In response to the Greenpeace report, "Lead and Cadmium in Vinyl Children's Products," the Vinyl Institute commissioned Environ Corporation, an independent scientific consultant, to review the Greenpeace findings. The Environ Corp. report concludes, "There are clear shortcomings with regard to the utility or the appropriateness of the methods employed by Greenpeace. Greenpeace has misinterpreted or misrepresented their own data." The report ends by saying, "The Vinyl Institute claims that when the data is standardized, a child would have to come into contact with a much larger surface area of a product than would normally occur to be exposed to hazardous levels of lead." Copies of the Environ evaluation are available by contacting the Vinyl Institute at 973-898-6699 or by making a visit to their Web site at www.vinylinfo.org. For more information, contact the Vinyl Environmental Resource Center at 1-800-969-8469.
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