For several days, many Internet users have been protesting against "the ban on tattoo inks" from January 2022.
In fact, a European regulation provides for the prohibition of around twenty pigments, compulsory new labeling of bottles, and a limitation of certain substances.
Tattoo artists are worried because this is a first step before more pigment removal in 2023.
What if the start of a new year rhymes with the end of tattoos?
This is the fear relayed by many Internet users on social networks for several days.
"How do you survive if tattooing is no longer allowed?"
One of them despairs.
Some Internet users find this ban ironic.
"Ban tattoos but not cigarettes?"
The alcohol ?
», Asks a lover of this body art.
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In reality, tattoo inks are not going to be banned. As of January 4, 2022, certain chemical elements can no longer be used by professionals, according to a European Union regulation validated by the Member States and the European Parliament and signed on December 14, 2020 by the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. A measure that aims to preserve the health of the many people who get tattoos each year.
“Initially, the regulations were not very clear,” explains Karine Grenouille, secretary of the National Union of Tattoo Artists.
“It was not until August, during interviews with experts at the World Congress on Tattoo and Pigment Research in Copenhagen, that we really realized all the difficulties he was going to face. pose to tattoo artists.
Because in addition to the ban on 25 red, orange and yellow pigments, 4,000 substances will be limited, and new labeling standards will come into force.
Banned pigments, new dosages and new labeling
“As far as pigments are concerned, they can theoretically be replaced.
But on this, we have no visibility at the level of producers and distributors, ”explains Karine Grenouille.
According to her, it takes between five and ten years for manufacturers to create new pigments.
On the issue of limited substances, the tattooists union denounces a lack of evaluation: “The thresholds which have been decreed are very low, they are therefore undetectable.
The organization fears that it will simply no longer be possible to use products that contain these substances.
“The new labeling is legitimate, and this will strengthen the requirements.
But here again, professionals emphasize the short implementation timeframe before the planned entry into force of the regulation.
It is therefore a great leap into the unknown for the 10th art.
“The problem is that some tattoo artists will continue to use the products illegally.
The risk is therefore to produce the opposite effect of the health security desired by the European Union.
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A petition signed by 170,000 people
"It is the silence on the side of the ARS, the ministry ... We would like at least a delay", despairs Karine Grenouille. According to her, the regulations that will be applied are based on standards established in cosmetics, and are therefore not suited to the tattoo industry. “To defend the new bans, we are told about carcinogenic substances. But today, no study identifies problems with cancer or other serious diseases related to tattooing. »And what about the new inks that will be marketed? Of their impact on health? Hold on the skin over time? So many unanswered questions for the moment.
Faced with these uncertainties, the sector is mobilizing.
The National Union of Tattoo Artists has been relaying the online petition since the beginning of the year on the European Parliament website for the maintenance of different pigments.
According to the union, it would bring together nearly 170,000 signatories.
And the tattoo artists are not at the end of their sentence, because in January 2023, new pigments, them blue and green, should be banned.
"There would be no alternative for 60% of the color palette currently available", worries Karine Grenouille.
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