EU bans polycarbonate baby bottles from 2011 / European parliament votes on revisions to RoHS directive

摘要

Following the decision of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA, Brussels / Belgium; www.efsa.europa.eu) not to revise its recommended total daily intake of bisphenol A (BPA), it appeared the EU would not take any immediate action to ban or restrict the PC and epoxy resins feedstock. But in an unexpected move, the European Commission announced it would ban the chemical in baby bottles from 2011. PlasticsEurope (Brussels / Belgium; www.plasticseurope.org) said it was "deeply disturbed" by the action. The decision to prohibit the manufacture of infant feeding bottles made of polycarbonate from March 2011 and the sale or import of the bottles from June 2011 came after a "qualified majority" of the EU Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health voted to accept the Commission's proposed directive. France and Denmark already had adopted national measures to restrict BPA in feeding bottles.