Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy written question – answered at on 26 July 2018.
Mark Hendrick
Labour/Co-operative, Preston
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has plans to bring forward legislative proposals to ban glitter.
Kelly Tolhurst
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy)
Under product safety legislation, manufacturers and distributors have a responsibility to only place safe products on the market.
Legislation banning the manufacture and sale of rinse-off personal care products containing microbeads has been introduced in England under the Environmental Protection Act 1990. Under this legislation, the manufacture and sale of rinse-off personal care products containing glitter which falls within the definition of a plastic microbead is banned.
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