Environment committee  I just want to ask where the figure of ten times the cost came from, because I know hospitals in the United States are moving to PVC-free units that are the same cost as current devices.

Environment committee  I'd like to see the data.

Environment committee  I'm confused by it as well. It makes it seem like an intractable problem, and our experience is that it's not intractable. There may be some particular uses, and I think that's why blood bags are exempted in the bill, but I have held in my hands the Baxter PVC-free bags, the Ba

Environment committee  --and found that they they can make almost everything they make out of DEHP with PVC, with alternative plastics.

Environment committee  If tomorrow you told every health care provider in Canada that they had to take the DEHP-containing products off their shelves, you would have that kind of a problem. But if you give health care providers enough time to stock the alternatives, if you do a reasonable phase-in, giv

Environment committee  While we're worried about things like blood bags or other priority medical devices that we don't have an alternative for, why don't we look at the low-hanging fruit, like food containers or nail polish, where we know how to make them without phthalates?

Environment committee  It's still a fair question. Should we have to memorize the numbers we have to be worried about and turn over the food container? Given that we have other plastics that don't need phthalates, shouldn't all food containers be phthalate free?

Environment committee  Milk-bottle plastic has no phthalates in it, and it's nice and soft. Tupperware has no phthalates in it, and it never did.

Environment committee  I've seen soft PVC used for some large water containers. I've seen it sometimes used for shampoo bottles. I've seen it used for food storage containers, but I've never turned over a drinking bottle and seen that on the bottle.

Environment committee  Thank you. I'm a registered nurse, and I was one of the founders of Health Care Without Harm in 1996. Health Care Without Harm is an international campaign on environmental responsibility in the health care industry. In that first year, in 1996, it was part of my job to review t