Enter Europe’s precautionary principle when it comes to food safety: you don’t have to show that a chemical is harmful to ban it, but you have to prove it safe to be allowed in the food cycle. Guilty until proven innocent.
Ah maybe my perspective is wrong. I didn’t know this is how the EU does it. Does this rule apply to plastic or fabric as well? Or maybe only plastic used for food? regulating recycled plastic that is used for food makes a ton of sense to me.
As far as I know it applies to anything where there’s a risk the chemical can affect the body. Like food and cosmetics (and the containers if there’s a chance that anything can leach into the product), but I can imagine it also applies to clothing fabric because it’s worn on the skin for a long time. Door handles and things like that? Less likely. But definitely toys, because children can (and will) chew on them.
Enter Europe’s precautionary principle when it comes to food safety: you don’t have to show that a chemical is harmful to ban it, but you have to prove it safe to be allowed in the food cycle. Guilty until proven innocent.
That doesn’t sound like a bad thing in my opinion
Yeah that’s a good thing in this case.
Ah maybe my perspective is wrong. I didn’t know this is how the EU does it. Does this rule apply to plastic or fabric as well? Or maybe only plastic used for food? regulating recycled plastic that is used for food makes a ton of sense to me.
As far as I know it applies to anything where there’s a risk the chemical can affect the body. Like food and cosmetics (and the containers if there’s a chance that anything can leach into the product), but I can imagine it also applies to clothing fabric because it’s worn on the skin for a long time. Door handles and things like that? Less likely. But definitely toys, because children can (and will) chew on them.