Cutting red tape and saving jobs

As part of National’s campaign to cut red tape, we have repealed regulations which each year would have added more than $20 million to family grocery bills and put an extra 30 million plastic containers into the waste stream.

These regulations would have required more than 1000 household products, in cardboard boxes and refill bottles, to have child resistant packaging, despite having similar toxicity to table salt or lemon juice. Products that would have been banned include Persil, Palmolive Dishwashing Liquid, Surf, Spray 'N Wipe, Mr Muscle, and Toilet Duck. National’s commonsense approach to regulations is about reversing Labour's Nanny State, containing the cost of living, and saving jobs.

Child safety is important, but Labour’s regulations went too far. There is no evidence of serious or fatal injury of children from these products. Those products which do pose a threat to safety will have child-resistant packaging.

More information:
http://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/regulation+reversal+will+save+households