Reply To: GPSR horror (argh!)

[horati0nosebl0wer 19859xp 0]

Not really sure about the overall ins and outs of the regulations but it strikes me as similar to legal codes in the US. California has product compliance codes that I still laugh at that requires a warning that such-and-such a product has chemicals that are known to the state of California to be carcinogenic (something like that). Legalese isn’t my first language but “the letter of the law” and “the spirit of the law” seem to point in that direction. I think it would be an inhibition on anyone doing metal figures that use lead and anything resin that would have significant health risk from ingestion/exposure. Perhaps it would also be a requirement for making labels prominent like the Californian ones.

It also comes across as something akin to the issuance of building/mechanical codes in construction that someone is a “competent person”. Honestly its more of a formality until shit hits the fan and somebody needs to get thrown under the bus when something goes sideways and a justification for a bureaucratic job.