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EU abandons promise to ban toxic chemicals in consumer products
(www.theguardian.com)
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It's more things that the US would call "Generally Recognised As Safe" or GRAS. Stuff that was tested in the 70s and written off as fine, in spite of the fact that it does have some negative effects. Typically the effects don't occur immediately in small doses, only very large doses, however at the time there was no real study done on the effects of continuous low doses over a long period. More recent research has determined that they are in fact harmful in this way.
However, getting businesses to change is hard, because money, and it sounds like they've managed to get the EU to back off. Shame.