Survey of chemical substances in consumer products, 70 – Survey, migration and health evaluation of chemical substances in toys and childcare products produced from foam plastic

Survey, migration and health evaluation of chemical substances in toys and childcare products produced from foam plastic

Preface

The project “Survey, migration and health evaluation of chemical substances in toys and childcare products produced from foam plastic“ was made on behalf of the Danish environmental protection agency. The project was a cooperation between The Danish Toxicology Centre, responsible for the survey and the health evaluation and Analytica AB, responsible for the chemical analysis.

The purpose of this project was to make a survey of toys and childcare articles produced from foam plastic in Denmark. Based on the survey the purpose was to select a number of products for analyses for content of chemical substances know to cause health problems in humans. Based on the analytical results chemical substances were chosen to the health assessment.