Question 13580 — dangerous products

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Ms. Élodie Jacquier-Laforge questions the Minister of State, Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition, on the effectiveness of European Regulation Reach No. 1907/2006, which came into force in 2007, to secure the manufacture and use of chemical substances in European industry. This involves identifying, evaluating and controlling chemical substances manufactured, imported and placed on the European market. Already more than 20,000 are known and their potential risks established; Europe thus has the legal and technical means to guarantee a high level of protection for all against the risks linked to chemical substances. However, after three years of research, the German Federal Risk Institute (BfR), equivalent of the French Health Safety Agency (Anses), has just revealed that a third of the products which are most used in Europe, do not do not comply with health and environmental protection regulations. The BfR, with the support of the German Environment Agency, has studied molecules produced or imported massively into Europe (more than 1,000 tonnes per year) since 2010. 1,814 have been identified and for 32% of them the data provided is not compliant. These substances, present everywhere, are far from being harmless and can be disruptive endocrine, carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic. According to the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), “These staggering results show that manufacturers are violating European laws by marketing hundreds of potentially dangerous chemical substances widely used in consumer products.” However, the law is clear: it is up to manufacturers to prove that their products are not dangerous. The law says: “No data, no market”. This means that these substances should not be used until their safety has been demonstrated. ". Faced with the particularly serious public health risks revealed by this research, she asks what the Government intends to implement, at European and national level, in order to protect the health of the French and their environment.

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