tedshroyer

I didn't make an assertion one way or another about it being a good reason or a bad reason. I was simply pointing out that it's old.

As for resources, perhaps you can find a peer reviewed study in one of these sites.

This site has pro-phthalate information -> http://www.phthalates.org/

This site has anti-phthalate information under the Chapter 3 section-> http://centerforinvestigativereporting.org/articles/exposeds...

I read a book that devoted a chapter to this topic not too long ago called Exposed by Mark Schapiro. The end of the book had dozens of pages of reference citations. I think you could find the documents you are looking for by checking it out.

Anyway, this sort of stuff has been under review in Europe since the late 90s so it's not a "new consumer scare". The EU passed a temporary ban on certain plastic additives there just before 2000 and have made it a permanent ban in 2005. Old news link-> http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20050706/ai_...