CEH Confirms Greenpeace iPhone Report

The Center for Enviornmental Health, a California based activist group, claims that they were able to recreate Greenpeace's test results for the iPhone which found toxic and potentially harmful chemicals present in the device's hardware. They claim to have found a presence of philates, a chemical used to increase the flexability of PVC plastics (and which hinder sexual development in mammals), in places including a pair of iPhone cables.

CEH singles out dibutyl phthalate (DBP), of which they claim there is be 6,200 parts per million used in the iPhone. They also claim to have conducted tests on cables used for the iPod's headphones, and found DBP levels of 6,300ppm. Greenpeace's tests of the iPhone cables indicated 5,070ppm, (an unusual and rather large discrepancy).

Despite Apple's promise to eliminate PVCs in their products by 2008, CEH and Greenpeace are singling out Apple. CEH has already issued a lawsuit based on Greenpeace's initial data, claiming that Apple violated official California law by not warning their customers about the chemicals, which they claim can be absorbed orally or with contact with the skin.

[via MacNN]