Medical devices
A variety of medical devices used to deliver medical care such as bags and tubing for
intravenous fluids, nutritional formulas, blood transfusions, and dialysis are made of PVC
plastics softened with phthalates, usually DEHP. DEHP can leach out from these products
(20). DEHP has been found in newborns treated in neonatal intensive care units with medical
devices made with polyvinyl chloride plastic containing DEHP (22-24).