ICIS Blogs : phthalates

Canada plans to ban phthalates

Green Chemicals — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:02:44 GMT

Last week Friday, Canada's Minister of Health announced their planned proposal to ban phthalates in soft vinyl toys and child-care articles as well as further reduction limits of lead in consumer products. Canada is proposing regulations to prevent...(read more)

What's inside SC Johnson?

Green Chemicals — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:23:59 GMT

Now you will know what SC Johnson is using in their air care and home cleaning products such as Windex®, Pledge®, Glade®, and Scrubbing Bubbles® (among others) as the company pledged (Lol! no pun intended) to list all of their ingredients including dyes...(read more)

Check your kids' gifts

Green Chemicals — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:21:38 GMT

The holiday season again brought more toy safety issues from consumer advocates and although this advice is probably late (since most already threw out tons of ripped boxes that house their kids' gifts), it might still be worthwhile checking in the...(read more)

Regulatory and sustainability in cosmetics

Green Chemicals — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:52:18 GMT

On the second day of the HBA cosmetic show in New York City as I attended some presentations on their third annual regulatory summit, the buzzwords that frequently circulated throughout the program were green, California, bisphenol-A, phthalates, REACH...(read more)

Market loss on phthalates ban

Green Chemicals — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:48:18 GMT

According to this article from ICIS News , the temporary ban of some plasticizer phthalates on kids' products can cause permanent consumption loss in this end-market. The American Chemistry Council (ACC) hold a media web conference yesterday talking...(read more)

Regulatory news heat up

Green Chemicals — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:31:09 GMT

I received good news that the Green Chemicals blog reached its record-breaking 4,323 readers for the month of July! Thanks for the visit and come back again! (and again and again!!) To get the momentum going, I'll post later this afternoon this week's...(read more)

Phthalates ban in toys coming soon

Green Chemicals — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:14:33 GMT

I am traveling today and tomorrow for Evonik's plant groundbreaking event in Mobile, Alabama. The facility will produce alkoxides, which are used as catalysts in biodiesel production. Aside from the biodiesel industry, Evonik will also give an update...(read more)

Media lessons on plastics

Green Chemicals — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:32:27 GMT

The chemical industry must really be getting irritated by the continued sensationalism of supposed toxic consumer products (especially brought on by the media). I just got this email from the American Chemistry Council stating the facts about phthalates...(read more)