Recital 27

(27) Without prejudice to the restriction of PFAS, this Regulation should not provide for the possibility of imposing restrictions on the use of substances based on reasons of chemical safety or for reasons related to food safety, unless there is an unacceptable risk to human health or the environment, including, but not limited to, the restrictions on lead, cadmium, mercury and hexavalent chromium that were already established on the basis of Directive 94/62/EC and that should be maintained under this Regulation, given that such restrictions are addressed under other Union legal acts. It should nevertheless also allow for the restriction, primarily for reasons other than chemical or food safety, on substances present in packaging and packaging components or used in their manufacturing processes, which negatively affect the sustainability of packaging, in particular as regards its circularity, especially re-use or recycling processes.

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-08-26 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.