Medical products such as blood bags and tubing are often made from soft PVC, a plastic that contains phthalate plasticizers, which are suspected to be harmful to human health. These substances are not ...

The results shows that in several device applications certain plasticizers may cause softening, cracking, or other defects in non-PVC components as they migrate across the interface with the component ...

The recent announcement that plastics and chemicals supplier BASF plans to double its production capacity for its non-phthalate plasticizer Hexamoll to 200,000 tonnes/yr by 2013 is a clear sign that ...