Prolonged Psychological Fear Based on Unfounded/Distorted Claims:

(DEHP/DINP/DIDP) Phthalate Plasticizers - a.k.a. The Great Baby Toy Scare

Di-2-EthylHexyl Phthalate (DEHP)

Di-IsoNonyl Phthalate (DINP)

Di-IsoDecyl Phthalate (DIDP)

• Time to Stop Fear-Mongering Toy Campaign says Industry
• The Sad Truth About Greenpeace
• Soft Plastics, Softer Science
• Plasticisers: bis(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP)
• Hostages in the War Against "Chemicals"
• Potshots from the Purveyors of Plasticizer Panic
• Decisions on EU Chemicals Policy - Based on Science or Scaremongering?
• Did You Know?
• Toys
• The Phthalate Controversy
• Putting Public Health Risks in Proper Perspective
• PVC Toy Scare: Manufacturing Danger
• Top Ten Unfounded Health Scares of 2007 (#7 Rubber Ducks Are Toxic [Phthalates Endanger Children])
• Dishonest or Stupid? Either Way, PBS' NOW is a Journalistic Disgrace
• The Los Angeles Times, Perez Hilton, Fishing Monkeys, Toxic Shower Curtains, and the Future of Journalism
• Greenpeace Urges Americans to Lie to Congress
• The Top 10 Unfounded Health Scares of 2008 (#7 Toxic toys remain on shelves through the holiday season)
• Mount Sinai's Scare Campaign (and John Stossel's reaction)
• Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Phthalates Revisited
• Phthalate Risks, Phthalate Regulation, and Public Health
• The Truth About Phthalates
• The Harvard School of (Unscientific) Public Health (Activism)
• The Truth about Chemicals
• The Truth About Phthalates
• Don’t fall victim to the hysteria over plastic toys
• The biggest unfounded health scares of 2010
• BPA, phthalates falsely incriminated in junk science studies
• Whyaduck?
• Scary common consumer products — not
• “Green” medical devices: ideology, not science
• Activist group scares parents about “toxic” school supplies
• Australian government sticks to the science on phthalate ruling
• The Top 10 Unfounded Health Scares of 2012 (#1 & 2. Phthalates in cosmetics and school supplies)
• French harden laws against plasticizer DEHP
• ACSH’s Top 10 Health Scares of 2014 (#1. Prenatal exposure to phthalates linked to lower IQs in children)
• What started the phony phthalates scare? Utterly inept science

The Science

• A Scientific Evaluation of Health Effects of Two Plasticizers Used in Medical Devices and Toys: A Report from the American Council on Science and Health (DEHP/DINP)
• NTP-CERHR Monograph on the Potential Human Reproductive and Developmental Effects of Di-isononyl Phthalate (DINP)
• NTP-CERHR Monograph on the Potential Human Reproductive and Developmental Effects of Di(2-Ethylhexyl) Phthalate (DEHP)
• NTP-CERHR Monograph on the Potential Human Reproductive and Developmental Effects of Di-Isodecyl Phthalate (DIDP)
• U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Ruling on DINP
• European Commission Institute for Health and Consumer Protection - Summary Risk Assessment Report on DIDP

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