Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 80189
Sanitary Products: Chemicals
Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 20 October 2025
Question
Adam Dance
Liberal Democrat — Yeovil
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of introducing government testing of period products for harmful chemical residues.
Answer
Kate DeardenThe General Product Safety Regulations 2005 require that only safe products, in their normal or reasonably foreseeable use, are placed on the market. There are obligations on Producers and distributors to where reasonable, sample test products to check sa...
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