On 02/07/16 10:36, Adrian wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jul 2016 10:20:12 +0100, Tim Streater wrote:

Neither ammonium sulphamate nor soft soap have been explicitly banned by
the EU, but they've both fallen foul of a blanket ban due to
manufacturers not submitting data required by EU regulations to
demonstrate that they were safe to use in their particular applications,
simply because it didn't make commercial sense for the manufacturers to
pay for such testing, and not because either product was intrinsically
harmful. Both ammonium sulphamate and soft soap can still be purchased,
but not for use as a herbicide or insecticide, respectively.

There must be lots of products that fall foul of that sort of umbrella
legislation. Traditional creosote comes to mind, and a long list of
proprietary products is given here http://tinyurl.com/zdglcdm , but I
imagine it happens in other areas such as electrical goods, cosmetics
etc.

AISB, this stems directly from the differences between us and most of
the rest of Europe sin how laws work: here, all is legal unless
explicitly made illegal by legislation. There, all is banned until
permitted.

No, that's not the way it works at all.

In practice, it is.


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