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The Proposed Prohibition of Children's Toys and Child Care Articles Containing Specified Phthalates

On December 17 2014, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Commissioners published the proposed rule: “Prohibition of Children’s Toys and Child Care Articles Containing Specified Phthalates”. The Commission encourages you to submit comments for the proposed rule. Comments may now be submitted at: http://www.regulations.gov . The comment period closes on March 16, 2015.

The proposed rule would establish a new regulation on the use of specified phthalates in children’s toys and child care articles. Section 108(a) of the CPSIA permanently prohibited the manufacture for sale, offer for sale, distribution in commerce, or importation into the United States of any “children's toy or child care article” that contains concentrations of more than 0.1 percent of di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), dibutyl phthalate (DBP), or butyl benzyl phthalate (BBP).

The proposed rule would expand the list of permanently banned phthalates for any “children's toy or child care article” to include any of the following phthalates containing concentrations of more than 0.1 percent, computed individually: diisononyl phthalate (DINP), diisobutyl phthalate (DIBP), di-n-pentyl phthalate (DPENP), di-n-hexyl phthalate (DHEXP), and dicyclohexyl phthalate (DCHP).

Click to view the proposed rule:
http://www.cpsc.gov//Global/Newsroom/FOIA/CommissionBriefingPackages/2015/ProposedRule-Phthalates-112514.pdf