The EU has agreed to ban, restrict, or put major safety warnings on 46 chemicals since Brexit - compared to just one in the UK
The UK’s more relaxed approach has raised fears that children face greater potential health risks from toxic toys, bouncy playgrounds and artificial turf pitches By contrast, the UK has added just one chemical to the watchlists it inherited from Europe – and only after a worldwide ban under the Stockholm Convention,
These bans include entire groups of flame retardants and bisphenols – chemicals used to harden plastics that have been linked to reduced fertility and skin allergies. “While other jurisdictions add more harmful chemicals to the list of concern, here in the UK we’re stymied by unacceptable delays, unambitious regulation, and lack of resources which mean potentially hazardous chemicals continue to find their way into our environment.
“There is no reduction in our high levels of chemical protection – with UK regulations retaining both the fundamental approach and key principles of the EU regulation.
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