Greenpeace blasts iPhone toxins, but notes they comply with rules

International protest group Greenpeace fired a shot across Apple Inc.'s bow by publishing a report that said the iPhone might be made with some toxic chemicals.

In the report, titled "Missed call: iPhone's hazardous chemicals," Greenpeace described a preliminary study of a disassembled iPhone that found polyvinyl chloride (a plastic banned from children's toys) in the headphones as well as bromine in some components, which is typically used in flame retardants.

However, in its report, Greenpeace said, "All components tested appear to be compliant" with European Union safety regulations used as the baseline for the study. The bits of the phone contained neither cadmium nor mercury, and low concentrations of lead. Though chromium was found, Greenpeace could find no evidence of chromium VI, the most toxic type.

Greenpeace pointed also to its discovery of antimony (though it could not quantify how much) in some of the parts it tested. Though antimony, also used in flame retardants, can be toxic, it isn't banned by the regulations under which Greenpeace conducted the tests.

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