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Phthalates are chemicals used to make plastics more pliable.
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But there is a silver lining to this dark cloud: Phthalates don't build up in our bodies.
Sloan Barnett: The Stinky Facts About Smelling Good Sloan Barnett 2011
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Phthalates are chemicals used in many common consumer products, including as softeners of plastic children's toys -- like a rubber ducky.
Pete Altman: Scholastic Steps Into the Chamber of Hypocrisy Pete Altman 2010
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Phthalates are associated with infertility, obesity, asthma, and allergies, as well as breast cancer; parabens are a cause for concern regarding breast cancer.
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"Phthalates are metabolized and excreted quickly and do not accumulate in the body," it concluded.
Jon Entine: Plastic Wars: Science Loses in Renewed Campaign Against Plasticizers Jon Entine 2011
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Phthalates are chemicals used in many common consumer products, including as softeners of plastic children's toys -- like a rubber ducky.
Pete Altman: Scholastic Steps Into the Chamber of Hypocrisy Pete Altman 2010
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Phthalates are chemicals used in many common consumer products, including as softeners of plastic children's toys -- like a rubber ducky.
Pete Altman: Scholastic Steps Into the Chamber of Hypocrisy Pete Altman 2010
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Apart from the chemicals such as BPA and Phthalates that are additives to the petroleum base of plastic, plastics are oliophillic (attract oil), absorbing oily toxins from the surrounding water (such as PCBs, partially burned hydrocarbons, like oil drops from cars, and pesticides, like DDT) and accumulating the toxins in concentrations up to one million times greater than those in the surrounding seawater.
Lisa Kaas Boyle: Did You Just Eat a Plastic Bag? How Plastic Pollution Has Entered Our Food Chain Lisa Kaas Boyle 2011
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Avoid Phthalates: Found in vinyl shower curtains, PVC plastic, synthetic air fresheners and many perfumes.
Annie Spiegelman: Rubber Ducks, Dancing Cats and Mutagenic Pajamas All in One Book! Annie Spiegelman 2010
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Phthalates mimic human hormones and harm children.
Annie Spiegelman: Rubber Ducks, Dancing Cats and Mutagenic Pajamas All in One Book! Annie Spiegelman 2010
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