Archive for August, 2007

And Yet More Concerns with Vinyl From the NY Times

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For a long time, there have been concerns with products from China.  If, for no other reason, there are so many human rights violations concerning sweat shops and working conditions, we should be buying less products from China and Taiwan.  But, in yet another massive sweep of recalls involving children’s bibs being sold under several different brand names like Koala kids and Especially For Baby from Kids/Toys ‘R us, there is a new concern over lead being in the PVC vinyl bibs they sell. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/15/business/15lead.html?ref=asia

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A New Study Comes Out

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      JUST SAY NO 

It’s not a perfect study, as you can read here  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-plastics3aug03,0,234908.story?coll=la-home-center

But, whatever….  There is enough strong evidence to convince me that  plastics containing bisphenols could be quite harmful. 

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