"Tim Streater" wrote in message
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In article , Chris Hogg
wrote:

On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 08:45:04 +0100, Tim Watts
wrote:

On 02/07/16 00:46, Adrian wrote:
On Fri, 01 Jul 2016 19:31:37 +0100, bert wrote:

Rather the same as all consumer goods. We already make those to EU
regs
- like it or not. So why do a re-design for the UK only to a lower
standard?

But we have top make *everything* to EU regs even if we have no
intention of exporting to the EU.

Well, yes. Anything sold in the EU has to conform to EU regs.

And the UK is the EU.

So which of those various EU regs are you suggesting are so terribly
wrong?

What are the impossibly high standards that UK consumers couldn't
possibly be realistically expected to demand from their purchases?

One word: glyphosate.

Another two words: ammonium sulphamate.

two more words: soft soap

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.

That's a lie. Have fun listing the EU law that allows you to
pick your nose, fart, each chocolate etc etc etc. They do it
all the time without getting charged for doing so anyway.

No law that says you can **** either.

Guilty until proven innocent, y'see.

Doesnt work like that either.