Everything seems to be toxic these days.
“The EcoWaste Coalition recently cautioned parents against buying raincoats made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic which, they said, contains toxic additives, particularly lead, that can harm the brain and the central nervous system and even disrupt the normal functions of the endocrine system,” reports Jeannette I. Andrade in Philippine Daily Inquirer.
According to the group, “five out of six PVC raincoats the group bought last month from stores in Divisoria and Baclaran—at prices ranging from P130 to P200—were found to contain lead.”
The allowable lead content is a maximum of 100 ppm “in accessible substrate materials under the US Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act.”
The report said that among the items EcoWaste sampled were Two Tweety Bird yellow raincoats with 574 ppm and 190 ppm of lead; a yellow student raincoat with 243 ppm of lead; a Winnie the Pooh yellow raincoat with 217 ppm of the toxic metal; and a Mickey Mouse blue raincoat with 164 ppm.
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