From her dancefloor filler tunes, her statement tattoos and of course her amazing style, Peggy Gou is one babe we definitely want in our friendship group. "The Government has asked the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) to prepare a dossier to review the risk posed by certain substances in tattoo inks and consider the case for introducing any restrictions.In a male dominated industry, South Korean DJ Peggy Gou is paving the way for us gals, and we are crushing hard over her right now. “They continue to obtain their tattooing products without any checks and without the possibility of tracing them,” he said.īritain will not automatically follow the EU's ban on coloured tattoo ink under its own REACH chemicals regulations.Ī Defra spokesperson said: "A UK REACH allows the UK to make its own decisions on the regulation of chemicals that are based on the best available scientific evidence, ensuring that chemicals remain safely used and managed. Michl Dirks, who is behind a “Save the Pigments” petition which has collected over 176,000 signatures, insisted the ban is not backed by science.Įrich Maehnert, a co-organiser of the campaign, also warned the ban would push people to secure supplies illegally from foreign countries. “The fact that Europe is making tattooing a very hard business, and I think it has a lot to do with the fact they don’t understand how the industry works… it’s like a Pandora’s Box opening now,” she added, warning of the emergence of backstreet parlours. “We already see lots of tattooists going to work behind closed doors and shutting their parlours,” said Ms Petit. The EU said tough regulations governing tattoo inks were needed because an estimated 12 per cent of Europeans are now inked, according to its own figures.īut Ms Petit said the changes could instead force the industry underground and away from regulators, in what she described as a much bigger danger to public health.Īccording to the country’s union of tattoo artists, three-quarters of Belgian shops do not have a supply of ink that conforms with the EU’s new regulations, with manufacturers struggling to fulfil orders for alternative solutions. “It is a sort of generalisation of practice which is already existing in quite a few member states.”Įurocrats argue that alternatives to the banned inks exist, and have given tattoo artists and suppliers until next year to find replacements for green and blue inks, but suppliers say the products are too slow to make their way from manufacturers to shops. The Commission’s chief spokesman said: “This is not something which is either a surprise or a complete novelty. “There should have been a lot more preparation.”īrussels said the consultation period for the new legislation began in 2016 and the official regulation introducing the restrictions was made public in December last year. He warned that the Covid-stricken industry would face more misery next year when more inks currently in use could be banned. Tycho Veldhoen, who has plied his trade for a quarter of a century in Amsterdam, said the ban on coloured ink would have an “enormous impact” on his work (seen below). “Tattoo artists are worried about their future and the future of their businesses.” “Lots of people were aware that REACH was coming but they didn’t know that the impact on the tattoo industry was this big. “It’s hitting like a bomb,” Marjolein Petit, of Duck Art Tattoo, told the Telegraph. In a statement, the EU said many of the chemicals found in tattoo inks were "carcinogenic, mutagenic and reprotoxic substances".ĭuck Art Tattoo, a family run tattoo shop in the Belgian city of Mechelen, has already had to turn customers away because of the shortages caused by the EU rule change. Tattoo artists are already fearful the diktat could force them to shut their parlours while suppliers scramble to find alternative inks that are compliant with the EU’s so-called REACH chemical legislation.īut some tattooists fear the rules could spell the end for green and blue tattoos because there are no immediate replacements for those two colours. The European Commission on Tuesday introduced new rules banning more than 4,000 previously unregulated substances in tattoo inks, amid fears they can cause cancer or other illnesses. Blue and green tattoos could be outlawed in the EU under new restrictions for potentially harmful chemicals, in a move tattoo artists have warned will hit their industry “like a bomb”.
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