Urban populations in Southern Californian are facing chronic exposure to toxic airborne “plasticizer” compounds — two of which have already been banned from children’s products, a new study has found.

The latest adulterant in illicit fentanyl was not a sedative or other psychoactive substance but a plasticizer, and it spread across the U.S. in a relatively short period of time, a review showed.

In the late 1920s, Waldo Semon presided over a marriage that would remain strong through the rest of the century. The B.F. Goodrich chemist mixed a hitherto unexploited polymer, polyvinyl chloride, ...

Non-phthalate plasticizer suggested as a potential alternative to DEHP. A recent study demonstrates that a non-phthalate plasticizer performs comparably to a phthalate plasticizer when used in red ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In the NHANES cohort, 3% of adolescents and young adults had metabolic syndrome. Higher phthalate and ...

Fairlawn, Ohio — The plasticizer market is facing some economic challenges in 2023. Flooring demand in the U.S. declined in 2022 and is on pace to decline again in 2023. Luxury vinyl tile — a ...

A new study published 9th January in PLOS Genetics by Mónica Colaiácovo of Harvard Medical School and colleagues reports that the most commonly used plasticizer, diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP), leads ...

BASF plans to start production of the plasticizer diethylhexyl terephthalate, also known as DOTP, in Pasadena, Texas, by 2017. The product, a non-ortho-phthalate polyvinyl chloride plasticizer, has ...