Press Release: Bisphenol A: EU ban on baby bottles to enter into force tomorrow

Baby bottles containing the substance Bisphenol A (BPA) have to be removed from the shelves in stores across the European Union tomorrow, as a ban on the placing on the market and import into the EU of such products enters into force. The ban is foreseen in an EU directive (2011/8/EU) adopted in late January. The industry has been withdrawing voluntarily from the market baby bottles containing BPA. On March 1, the EU had banned the manufacture in the Union of baby bottles containing BPA.

EFSA: Topics A-Z: Bisphenol A http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/topics/topic/bisphenol.htm

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