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Well... Alan,...maybe not. I NEVER played with dolls and grabbed every amphibian, reptile and rodent that got close enough. Pond scum was fascinating to me, especially the kind made up of tiny round flat thingies with wee roots hanging down under them. Hell, that's where all the neat critters hung out like the mosquito and dragon fly larvae and the hydrae.
No amount of skin rashes, bites and scratches could deter me. And since I often traveled with troupes that had bigger animals, I had some rather substantial injuries over the years.
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I never got to be a Girl Scout because I organized a strike against the food service at a Brownie camp when I was between gigs. I was drummed out of the corps -- a wise move on their part.
I ruined a carpet with a plastic product that would bounce if thrown, but flowed when left still. Silly Putty, I think was the name. Once this stuff embeds in fabric, it's like over for the fabric. So I probably would have adored slime and figured out a truly nefarious use for it.
No one knows better than I do how very much we need to make sure children are given things to do and products to use are safe and hard to abuse. Children absolutely cannot be trusted to use good judgement. Deep inside each child hides a crazy person. And any parent dumb enough to trust their child is likely to find out how bad an idea this is.
Now parents, don't start with me. If you think your kid never did a really dumb, dangerous, bad thing, he/she is still not leveling with you.
Monona Rossol, M.S., M.F.A., Industrial Hygienist
President: Arts, Crafts & Theater Safety, Inc.
Safety Officer: Local USA829, IATSE
181 Thompson St., #23
New York, NY 10012 212-777-0062
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From: Alan Hall <oldeddoc**At_Symbol_Here**GMAIL.COM>
To: DCHAS-L <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU>
Sent: Wed, Jul 18, 2018 11:25 am
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Chemical Safety headlines (18 articles)
Perhaps the rightt question is:
Whylet your children play with slime in the first place? Just because "everyone" thinks your child should have certain toy, doesn't mean you have to give them one. I'll bet even Raggedy Anns are still available and wound be well received.
Much sfaer alernatives any older girl scout or den mother cantell you about. You could take them to park and push them in a swing instesd.
Maybe just leave pond scum in the pond? Don't touch certain amphibians. Some has a very nasty bufotoxin on their skin to convince folks to leave them alone.
There's lot's of literature on boron toxicity. Much is available from the National Library of Medicine PubMed and Toxnet databases without charge. And the final answer is left for the studentto ascertain.
Alan
Alan H. Hall, MD
Medical Toxicologist
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 8:06 AM, TILAK CHANDRA <0000058f112ac338-dmarc-request**At_Symbol_Here**lists.princeton.edu> wrote:
Hi Monona:
Thank you for your comments on boron toxicity. Are there any alternatives of boron to produce the slime? Such alternatives may be more toxic than boron similar
to bisphenol A (BPA), until the products are fully tested.
Regards,
Tilak
From: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU>
On Behalf Of Monona Rossol
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 7:04 AM
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Well, shame on C&EN. Their July 9 issue contained a correction of their previous article's assumption about how boron interacts with the polymer emulsions to make
slime products, but NEITHER article mentioned the toxicity of boron. Both Health Canada and the European Commission have limits on the amounts of boron that can be in consumer and children's products. Slime is not a product C&EN should be encouraging people
to make on their own or buy without limits on the boron content.
If you get the whole BBC article listed below, it contains the following information:
Excessive levels of boron can cause irritation, diarrhoea, vomiting and cramps.
High levels may also impair fertility or cause harm to an unborn child in pregnancy, according to the European Commission. [And Health Canada = MR comment]
Eight out of the 11 slime products tested contained boron levels which exceeded the European Union safety limit of 300mg/kg.
SLIME TOYS COULD HAVE 'POTENTIALLY UNSAFE LEVELS' OF BORON, SAYS WHICH?
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-
Tags: United_Kingdom, public, discovery, response, other_chemical
Some children's slime toys contain potentially unsafe levels of a chemical which can cause vomiting and impair fertility, according to Which?.
An investigation by the consumer group into 11 popular slime products found eight contained higher than recommended levels of a chemical called boron.
One product had more than four times the EU safety limit, the tests found.
Which? is advising parents to "approach slime with caution" and said retailers and the government must do more.
It also urged parents to be careful when choosing to make "homemade slime", adding that some ingredients used to make slime - such as some contact lens solutions - contain borax, which is made up of boron.
Slime became one of 2017's biggest crazes, with millions of people sharing pictures on Instagram and watching DIY slime-making videos on YouTube.
Monona Rossol, M.S., M.F.A., Industrial Hygienist
President: Arts, Crafts & Theater Safety, Inc.
Safety Officer: Local USA829, IATSE
New York, NY 10012 212-777-0062
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