Health & Safety Newsletter
December 03, 2009

This Week´s Featured News Stories
Beware of lead and phthalates in Children’s holiday toys
Over the last several years there have been a number of media reports regarding tainted Chinese toys that have lead to massive product recalls. As the holiday shopping season is in full swing parents should be aware of the potential for continuing threats from heavy metals and chemicals that can leach from children’s toys. In an issue of the Pediatrics journal earlier this year a study reported that a number of common baby products may be exposing children to a group of chemicals known as phthalates. Phthalates are used in many children’s products as fragrance stabilizers and to keep plastics ...
EU council adopts updated cosmetics regulation requiring labeling of nanoscale ingredients
The European Union (EU) Council approved an updated cosmetics regulation that would require cosmetic products that contain nanoscale ingredients to be labeled as such. The regulation would also require the manufacturers of new cosmetic products containing nanomaterials to notify the European Commission (EC) and provide certain information six months before the product is placed on the European market. If the EC has concerns regarding the safety of the nanomaterial, it would ask the Scientific Committee for Consumer Safety (SCCS) to give its opinion. Manufacturers of products containing nanoscale ...
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