A lot is used by the industry: a dangerous shovel

Berlin pelvis | The Court of the European Union declared Melamin to be adopted by the European Chemical Agency (ECHA). In their decision on the environment, the judges rejected several complaints from companies in Luxembourg, which took place against the classification of industrialized material.

Melamin is an initial product for synthetic resins and can be found in many everyday products – in dishes or spatula. When heated, the fabric can be freed from the material. Studies of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment show that melamine can crystallize in the body and favors the formation of kidney or stones of the bladder. In addition, the fabric is potentially launched by cancer.

Based on these conclusions, ECHA MELAMIN was classified as potentially health and environmentally harmful, and in 2022 in the so -called list of candidates of chemical regulation of candidates. There, the agency leads chemicals that may be required to accept under certain conditions. The immediate ban is not initially related to the recording.

Manufacturer: Inside and supplier: However, it is obliged to inform consumers inside: inside, if their products contain more than 0.1 percent of melamine. Several companies from different EU countries sued this decision. They accused Echa’s methodological mistake of assessing the risk and doubted a scientific basis of the decision.

Convention to the chemical industry

However, the EU court rejected the objections: the assessment was understandable, scientifically substantiated and in accordance with applicable requirements. Openly, whether plaintive companies are called a European court in Luxembourg.

The debates of melamine tissue fall at a time when the EU reorganizes its chemical regulation. Currently, he is discussing advice, parliament and commission as part of a reduction in bureaucracy, such as an assessment of the risk of chemicals.

The Association of the Chemical Industry highly appreciated this initiative and demanded that “at the next step to the processes of approval, emissions or regulation of wastewater are quickly defined.” Mep Greens’ Martin Häusling, on the other hand, criticized the “chemical package”: in contradiction with a green transaction and was a political concession to the chemical industry due to health, environment and consumer protection.