EU – Nordic Enforcement Finds Phthalates and SCCPs

The EU Nordic countries of Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Norway recently completed a joint enforcement project on give-away products such as pens, electronic products, toys, bags, and other gadgets.  These items are typically imprinted with a company name/logo for advertising.  The Norwegian Environment Agency has produced a brief summary of the results[1].

The enforcement program involved 250 products from over 100 companies. The Chemical agencies were looking for regulated substances in the product and for non-compliant marketing (e.g. CE marking).

Of the EE products, 12% were non-compliance due to presence of restricted chemicals and 25% were non-compliant due to missing CE marking.

[1] Nordic Enforcement Summary, https://mst.dk/media/172187/2019_02_18-nordic-enforcement-of-give-away-products-press-release.pdf