Pledge to ban toxic chemicals in everyday goods has fallen short, warns watchdog

The European Environmental Bureau said that around 2,000 harmful chemicals still found in nappies, dummies, and childcare products were among the substances to be banned.

A pledge by EU leadership to ban thousands of potentially toxic chemicals in everyday products a year ago has since fallen seriously short, a leading environmental watchdog was warned.

The European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Europe's largest network of environmental citizens’ organisations, analysed the European Commission's much-heralded "restrictions roadmap" of chemicals of April last year.