
Plasticisers in plastic products: Phthalates, bisphenol A and other unpronounceable substances
Reading Time: 3 minutes Intervention in the hormone balance They have names such as Di-2-butoxyethyl phthalate (DBEP), Dibutyl phthalate (DBP) or Benzyl butyl phthalate (BBP) and countless others. They are found in plastics of all kinds and almost everyone has come across them under their common name “plasticisers”. Plasticisers are suspected of influencing the