PLASTIC TOYS NEED SPECIAL SAFETY RISK ASSESSMENTS SAYS EXPERT COMMITTEE
July 1st, 2010
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SAFETY assessments of plastic toys should consider overall risk, taking account of their likely use, rather than just focusing on the toxicity of substances used to make them, the European Union's (EU) Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks has advised.
Following a request from the European Commission for guidance on framing such assessments under the toys safety directive, the committee has advised taking broad but ad hoc approaches to individual toys. Under the law, the presence of most carcinogenic, mutagenic, and reprotoxic ...
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