Christmas shoppers warned to avoid plastic toys due to toxin levels
by Arthur Neslen from Environment | The Guardian on (#458F9)
Toys feature in more than half of EU alerts for products containing banned chemicals
Christmas shoppers are being warned to avoid plastic toys after they appeared in more than half of EU intergovernmental alerts for products containing banned chemicals this year.
In all, 290 of the 563 warnings sent out on the EU's rapid alert system concerned toys with illegally high levels of toxins, most of which were plastic dolls, and all of which could be on sale on British high streets.
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