From: Ian blenkharn@ianblenkharn.com
Category: News & information
Date: 28 Okt 2009
Time: 18:10:43 +0100
Remote Name: 86.138.129.105
I have heard previously of what I believe are entirely unfounded concerns about street furniture items manufactured from recycled plastics from clinical wastes - the worry was that DNA might carry over and be detected after a crime to incriminate an innocent patient!
And we have recorded here concerns in China about the manufacture of plastic cutlery from these recycled plastics - no doubt still safe after formal sterilisation of raw clinical wastes and the very high temperatures used during plastics manufacture.
Now another 'shock' 'horror' news story of children's toys manufactured from these plastics. That these toys had high lead levels is clearly unacceptable. Pity the news reporters couldn't manage to resist a comment about some perceived threat from the clinical waste origin of these plastics.
http://www.manolith.com/2009/10/27/target-sold-childrens-toy-that-had-illegal-levels-of-lead/