You do have to realize that this law is 99% bogus. Having a placemat with "possibly, maybe, who knows if, a small amount of phthalates that we don't even have a level for, nor a test for, nor even if it affects anyone but lab rats that we feed a diet of 400 times the amount that anything would get, and we have no equivilent results in humans, much less children" but we are going to say, because of the hysterical ecomaniacs that "it may be harmful because the said lab rats had small testicles, so therefore it may harm children, especially boy children, God forbid that they may have small testicles", so therefore phthalates are bad, and the gov, who gets $$$ from the aforemention ecomaniacs for their campaigns, and trips to Aruba, with the pretty little "bar girls" aka prostitutes, vote for "anything with phthalates must be bad, and therefore banned". Afterall the even thought of "small testicles" frightens the studs (ha ha) in congress. "So to that small business mom", that is trying to suppliment dad's income (if he is still working) so that she can stay at home with the kidlets, "we are after the safety of CHILDREN from the EVILS of BIG BUSINESS!!"
