Hazardous Chemicals Found in Many Consumer Products !!!

ECHA‘s EU-wide enforcement project found that products sold to consumers contained excessive levels of hazardous chemicals such as lead and phthalates.

The national enforcement authorities in 26 EU countries checked over 2.400 products, most of them intended for consumers, and found more than 400 of them breaching the EU’s chemicals laws.

The most common types of products violating the regulations were:

Electrical devices such as electrical toys, chargers, cables, headphones. 52 % of these products were found non-compliant, mostly due to lead found in solders, phthalates in soft plastic parts, or cadmium in circuit boards.
Sports equipment like yoga mats, bicycle gloves, balls or rubber handles of sport equipment. 18 % of these products were found to be non-compliant mostly due to SCCPs and phthalates in soft plastic and PAH in rubber.
Toys like bathing/aquatic toys, dolls, costumes, play mats, plastic figures, fidget toys, outdoor toys, slime and childcare articles. 16 % of non-electric toys were found to be non-compliant, mostly due to phthalates found in soft plastic parts, but also other restricted substances such as PAHs, nickel, boron or nitrosamines.
Fashion products such as bags, jewellery, belts, shoes and clothes. 15 % of these products were found non-compliant due to the phthalates, lead and cadmium they contained.

Where non-compliant products were identified, enforcement measures were taken and most of the products in question were withdrawn from the market.

The rate of non-compliance was found to be higher for products originating from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or whose origin was unknown.

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