Consumer Product Substance Regulations in the US and EU

Are you (unknowingly) selling products that contain restricted or banned substances?
Selling consumer products that contain excessive amounts of lead, cadmium, nickel, phthalates, PFAS and other restricted or banned substances can result in major fines and recalls. In other words, disaster!
Watch this video tutorial if you want to get a better understand of EU and US substance restrictions for consumer products.
Notice that this video was originally broadcast as a webinar in 2023. As such, some parts may be outdated.
European Union
Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive 94/62/EC
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
REACH
Packaging Labels
United States
Bag Suffocation Warnings
Resin Identification Code
Model Toxics in Packaging Legislation
16 CFR Part 260 - GUIDES FOR THE USE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MARKETING CLAIMS
Uniform Packaging and Labeling Regulation (UPLR)
Packaging labeling
Feel free to ask questions in the comments.

[@missionalwayspossible2261]

Nice valuable information
Can you please make a video on fruits and vegitables and also on meat for EU ?

[@ComplianceGate]

Food and beverages is not our area of expertise unfortunately

[@Kara-z9b]

When dropshipping this is all way too much, I can only check basic things like FCC, GCC, FDA etc. I need an FCC certificate for my product and I got it from my supplier. But they dont have lab tests for any substances or similar, I guess the chinese manufacturer needs to ask their own material supplier (silicone, ABS) for test reports for materials/and lithium batteries for example. I cannot do anything and testing the products myself is very expensive, what can I do? No person in ecommerce or dropshipping via shopify even cares about this. They dont even care for obvious things like a FCC. It seems like in the US no one has been penalized or caught for this because literally every product shipped to the US is in one or another way non-compliant. Every product is somehow non compliant in some form, so it‘s impossible to do all this