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My main objection is to the "must be banned immediately" part. That's totally alarmist and unnecessarily inflammatory.

We've been collecting increasingly reliable data on the harmful effects of pthalates on human development for at least two decades. How much data must accrue, and how harmful must it be, for an immediate ban to not be alarmist?

Why should we wait?

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