[PlatypusRhyme]

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Originally Posted by Tomax

Dont mean to be a debbie downer cause im always color tweaking my figs but i noticed some labels on acrylic paint that we use for figures and it says "cancer and reproductive harm" ?

* How serious is this? i never even noticed it till now.
* Some paints say the warning, some dont?

or am i overthinking it?

The toxicity comes from the pigments, not all pigments are toxic but some like cadmium are. The exposure would come from eating the paint, or sanding it and breathing in the paint dust (or airbrushing without a mask). Some pigments that are listed as toxic are only irritants, but others are more harmful…however, unless your consistently sanding or eating paint, you shouldn't have any worries.

The real concern, like some have mentioned, are the chemicals that make the plastics, not so much the hard ABS type plastics but the softer ones like vinyls etc, since the smell they give off are the chemicals off-gassing. Any cheaper new toys I get, which have a strong smell, I put in a window until the smell dissipates. Putting the toy in the sun will accelerate the off-gassing, but you may not want to do that with something expensive like a Hot Toys fig.