{"id":3422,"date":"2022-04-14T16:37:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/productip2.dev.peakfort.nl\/news\/the-drawbacks-of-paper-straws\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:00:19","slug":"the-drawbacks-of-paper-straws","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.productip.com\/de\/nachrichten\/the-drawbacks-of-paper-straws\/","title":{"rendered":"The drawbacks of paper straws"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Parliamentary questions<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the Dutch parliament, questions have been raised to the Minister of Health about a newspaper article with the tendentious headline: &#8222;Environmentally friendly straws are life-threatening to young children&#8220;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The newspaper article was based on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvwa.nl\/nieuws-en-media\/nieuws\/2022\/02\/23\/nvwa-onderzoekt-verstikkingsgevaar-papieren-rietjes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s2\">Press release (in Dutch)<\/span><\/a> issued by market surveillance authority NVWA.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s1\">NVWA investigated reports about young children who nearly suffocated after sucking on a paper straw. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Wet paper straws become soft, this can cause parts to come loose, forming a paper &lsquo;ball&rsquo; that cannot be easily swallowed and may cause suffocation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"kb\/productipedia\/compliance-resources\/drawbacks-of-paper-straws?utm_source=News&amp;utm_medium=news&amp;utm_campaign=paper_straws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">Read the full article to understand why paper has been chosen over plastic.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliamentary questions In the Dutch parliament, questions have been raised to the Minister of Health about a newspaper article with the tendentious headline: &#8222;Environmentally friendly straws are life-threatening to young children&#8220;. The newspaper article was based on a Press release (in Dutch) issued by market surveillance authority NVWA.&nbsp;NVWA investigated reports about young children who nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3422","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.productip.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.productip.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.productip.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.productip.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3527,"href":"https:\/\/www.productip.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/3422\/revisions\/3527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.productip.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}