Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 2:

In page 4, to delete line 23 and substitute the following: “(b) contains microbeads in excess of the permitted concentration.”.

This is in line with what the REACH proposals intend to get to in the future. It is to make sure that we allow for a very small allowance for microbeads that might unintentionally make their way into a product, so we have put in a limit of 0.01%. To give an example, it is possible that food in a plastic container might have a tiny trace of microbeads, which might be unavoidable. The legislation intends to capture people who intentionally put microbeads in products. While it may happen accidentally, if it does, it is only allowed to 0.01% of the weight of the product. That is the change being made here.