First products under suspicion: Federal Environment Agency finds banned plasticizers in urine samples. Now there are first clues as to where they could come from.
In North Rhine-Westphalia, LANUV carried out experiments on kindergarten children. In a comparison with children's urine samples from previous years, they found that children's samples today contain significantly more traces of plasticizers. While the researchers found hardly any plasticizer traces in 2015, according to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) Traces of the plasticizer are increasingly being found in children’s urine.