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Article: Controversial nitrosamines: the Dutch government and MRPRA state their cases. (Malaysian Rubber Producers' Research Association)(response to article about Dutch regulation of baby-bottle nipples) (letter to the editor)
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- European Rubber Journal
- Article date:
- July 1, 1989
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THE DUTCH GOVERNMENT AND MRPRA STATE THEIR CASES
Controversial nitrosamines
In the June issue of ERJ, we published an article about the regulations concerning babies' teats in the Netherlands. Dick Van Battum, who was quoted extensively in the piece, has pointed out a number of errors which crept in. We are happy to set the record straight.
We also received a letter from the Malaysian Rubber Producers' Research Association (MRPRA), which is printed in full below.
Van Battum feels that we got the emphasis of the story wrong. We implied that the nitrosamine levels were the main cause of the ban, but in his department's report, it was the ...