With just one day to go to a PVC-Free Toy Industry seminar to be held in Tokyo and organised by Greenpeace Japan, the environmental organisation revealed that Bandal, Japan's largest toy producer had sent them a fax confirming that they have already stopped the use of PVC in the type of toy normally sucked or chewed by children is no longer used in products intended for children under three years of age. The fax stated that Bandai recognise the environmental and public health effects not only of phthalates in PVC, but of PVC as a source of dioxin. Bandai, however, are not yet willing to go 100% PVC free.