S&Ds hold online marketplaces accountable for selling dangerous toys and secure the protection of children from toxic chemicals

After this compromise, this new regulation must be formally adopted in the coming weeks.

The European Commission has agreed on a new toy safety rule. The Commission announced this in Brussels on Friday. The new regulation is therefore intended to prohibit the use of harmful chemicals such as PFAS, endocrine disruptors and bisphenols in toys. In addition, the regulation is intended to ban chemicals that affect the respiratory system, cause skin allergies or are toxic to a specific organ. All toys should then be sent via a digital pro…

S&Ds hold online marketplaces accountable for selling dangerous toys and secure the protection of children from toxic chemicals

Today, the European Council, the Commission, and the Parliament reached an agreement on the EU Toys Safety Regulation. This EU law aims to reduce the number of dangerous toys that still find their way into consumers’ hands. The Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament contributed in establishing a digital product passport to facilitate traceability, and that toys emitting a...

This is not the first refusal by the Métropole de Lyon and the eco-citizen institute of Fos-sur-Mer. The Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR) announced at the beginning of March that it was refusing the request for funding for a study of bio-impregnation with eternal pollutants, known as PFAS, carried by the environmental community of Lyon and the institute, announce our colleagues [...] The article A study on the eternal pollutants carried ou…

Toys can put children's health at risk. Europe has decided to set the alarm against the presence of perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkaline substances (PFAS) in toys. Indeed, we find them in the anti-stick pans... Read more about Elle.fr