Survey and Health Assement of the exposue of 2-year-olds to chemical substances in Consumer Product

Table 7.25. Overview of earlier surveys analysing for content of DBP

Year no. Project Comments on the project Product types[23] Relevant arena[24] Quantity identified - min. value Quantity identified - max value Unit Migration identified - min. value Migration identified - max value Unit
2002 1 Products containing PVC   Vinyl floors Day-care centre, inside 15000 16000 mg/kg      
2002 14 Plasticine   Plasticine Day-care centre, inside 43 200 mg/kg 0.37 6 mg material emitted/kg test at 200 degrees Celsius
2006 68 Aroma substances in toys and articles for babies   Scented toy (eraser) Day-care centre, inside 120 3500 mg/kg      
2006 70 Toys made of foam plastic   Sword Day-care centre, inside   1.8 mg/kg      
2006 70 Toys made of foam plastic   Floor jigsaw Day-care centre, inside 7.95 780 mg/kg      
2006 70 Toys made of foam plastic   Swimming board Playing outside   2 mg/kg      
2006 70 Toys made of foam plastic   Mask Day-care centre, inside   2.6 mg/kg      
2006 70 Toys made of foam plastic   Book Day-care centre, inside   11.9 mg/kg      
2008 90 Baby products Phthalates measured - DIBP + DBP Baby changing mats/cushions All <20 70 µg/g      
2004   Toy test performed for The Danish Consumer Council, 2004 From the survey “Test of toys for presence of chemical compounds”, prepared by TI, October 2004. Toy (inflatable feeding bottle) Day-care centre, inside 13 13 Mg/g      
2004   Toy test performed for The Danish Consumer Council, 2004 Arwill baby from Norway - 2 small baby dolls in a bath with sponge Toy (bath dolls?) Bath 0.02 0.02 Mg/g      
2006   TÆNK (THINK, magazine) test/article Test of substances in body stockings. Found phthalates, formaldehyde and triclosan. Disney print was the worst. Body stockings All   ?        
2003   Greenpeace - Toxic Textiles by Disney Chemicals in clothes from 19 different countries all over the world. Clothes All 0 770 Mg/kg      
2009   Phthalates in children’s clothes, Göteborg-Posten (Gothenburg Post) Measurements of phthalates in print on clothes Clothes (shirts) All 20 290 Mg/kg      


[23] The numbers refer to the originally determined areas

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