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>A long list of potentially harmful ingredients banned in the EU are legally allowed in the US due to historically relaxed regulations Maybe European regulatio
by macspoofing 7y ago
>A long list of potentially harmful ingredients banned in the EU are legally allowed in the US due to historically relaxed regulations
Maybe European regulations are overly strict?
US regulations aren't lax.
- StanislavPetrov 7y agoUS regulations are more non-existant than they are lax. In the US a company is free to saturate you with whatever new chemical they invent until you can prove that it is causing you harm. In the EU a company has to first prove the chemical doesn't cause you harm before they saturate you with it. Its why all of us are saturated with hundreds of industrial chemicals and we have no idea what the long term health effects of this saturation will be. https://www.forbes.com/2010/01/21/toxic-chemicals-bpa-lifestyle-health-endocrine-disruptors.html#4d1dc3f4bb91 https://www.forbes.com/2010/01/21/toxic-chemicals-bpa-lifest...
- EpicEng 7y ago>In the EU a company has to first prove the chemical doesn't cause you harm before they saturate you with it. That's not possible. What the EU does is allow things which have been used by other people for some time once they feel comfortable that it's probably ok. In other words, they have guinea pigs.
- purple_ducks 7y agoClearly not as the US has adopted that mindset for new chemicals. From the linked article... "The US has similar rules for new chemicals entering the market but no such precautionary principles for the thousands of potential toxins already in use"
- makomk 7y agoHang on - doesn't that mean that every single chemical that was used in US cosmetics but not EU cosmetics would automatically be banned by Europe rather than the US, regardless of whether there was any particular reason it would be unsafe?