Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 80974
Sanitary Products: Chemicals
Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 20 October 2025
Question
Helen Maguire
Liberal Democrat — Epsom and Ewell
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if his Department will introduce routine testing of menstrual products for 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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