Planned changes to criteria for sustainable investments could see cosmetics and other products containing harmful substances, including some PFAS ‘forever chemicals’, given the EU ‘green’ label despite potential risks, campaigners have warned.
The amendments, buried in the small print of an ‘omnibus’ deregulation proposal tabled last month, could limit the list of chemicals whose presence would preclude a product from the EU’s sustainable investment list to as few as 247 identified ‘substances of very high concern’.
