A study of the Swedish Society for Nature shows that chemicals in plastic shoes sold in many large-scale retailers can affect our health and the environment. People like the plastic shoes that are easy to wash and light weight. You can simply throw them when they wear out. The problem is the chemicals used in production could harm our health. It may also affect workers engaged in the manufacture of shoes.
Experts SSNC and co-op groups in the Philippines, India, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania and Indonesia have shown that phthalates are harmful to reproductive systems in 17 plastic shoes 27 analyzed for their chemical composition.
A substance that is currently on the EU list of substances of very high concern (substances of very high interest), DEHP. The people he found in a few flip-flops in South Africa. The European Union has classified DEHP as toxic for reproduction category 2 for fertility and developmental effects, but consumers still think that this is not a risk for the sake of health.
The FDA never stops working on recommendations on the health risks of DHEP. But many times we were told not to worry much. Now the main concern of the use of medical devices that contain DHEP come. However, the FDA says that strong evidence of harm DHEP not been proven.
Many consumers do not know the harmful substances in plastic shoes and the companies are not responsible for controlling their production. Given the presence of chemicals in everyday consumer surveys, experts recommend that public authorities need more resources, “says President of SSNC Mikael Karlsson.
In fact, the more chemicals are found in a plastic shoe that could harm human health, such as PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons), organic compounds of tin, heavy metals, mercury, lead and cadmium. SSNC still struggling to make something to increase awareness of consumers when buying products that harm our health and the environment does.
