My former roommate has this utensil bought rather naively, to be quenched only by the immediate chemical bestial stench of the product. Fortunately! Because the homely scent indicates highly toxic plasticizers (phthalates), which are absorbed through the skin and can draw incalculable implications for health. That such items at all can be sold in Europe, so that not even is a labeling requirement, a real indictment of the policy and the economy alike. We play in favor of the "fast Euro" with the health of citizens, and that too legally. Amazon may incidentally not really much for it - because the men should rather be taken by the European Parliament on the nose!