The handle smells extremely strong for chemistry. As is known one should keep their hands off of it in such cases, actually. Unfortunately not possible because one must cut open the bag until ranzukommmen to the handle. The only possibility was therefore to allow the handle to the appropriate transpiring lie unused in the open air for weeks. Now he no longer smells so strong. The bad feeling about the possible toxic ingredients / plasticizers remains. Therefore love Polaroid: you urgently seeks another Chinese producer. I can not recommend this product!