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Plastic Shoes and Health

November 17th, 2009

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.

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