Депутат Рут Джонс призвала правительство Великобритании запретить опасные химикаты в детских игрушках

Член парламента Рут Джонс направила письмо правительству с требованием ввести запрет на эндокринные разрушители в игрушках, чтобы обеспечить детям уровень защиты, сопоставимый с европейским. Депутат предупредила, что Великобритания отстает от науки в вопросах безопасности и призвала не допустить повторения ошибок прошлого.

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Ruth Jones MP has written to the Government calling for children in the UK to receive the same level of protection from ‘harmful chemicals’ in toys as children in the EU. The Newport West MP wants the Government to follow the EU and ‘take action to ban EDCs ‘Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals’ in children’s toy’. Mrs Jones said the UK are ‘lagging behind the science on harmful chemicals’ and urged the Government to take action. Jones urged the Government to learn from the lessons of the past and not to make the same mistakes. Jones said: “I have written to the Secretary of State for the Department of Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, calling for children in the UK to receive the same level of protection from harmful chemicals in toys as children in the EU. “At the end of last year, the EU banned a wide range of harmful chemicals in toys, including hormone disrupting chemicals and PFAS, the ‘forever chemicals’. “Children are uniquely vulnerable to effects associated with these chemicals because they are still growing. “Thank you to CHEM Trust for their work on this, and thanks also to my fellow MPs who signed. I will update you all once I receive a reply.” Last month Mrs Jones raised this issue in a radio interview with LBC. In that interview she said: “As parents and caregivers, we should be able to trust that the toys we buy for our children won’t harm them. This is a basic expectation, yet history shows that what we don’t know can indeed hurt us. And history might be repeating itself now. “As a nation, we don’t want to look back in fifty years and feel horrified about what our children were being exposed to, as we do now with lead in toy soldiers. History has set out the lesson clearly; now we need to learn from it.” She added: “I find it astonishing how quickly scientific knowledge progresses and how rapidly it changes our perception of ‘normal’ product safety. This is particularly relevant in the case of children’s toys.”