Fans of tattoos, rest assured, the color is safe! The Tatouage & Partage association is delighted: its president, Stéphane Chaudesaigues, welcomed a letter from the Ministry of Health published two days ago, published on the association’s website. According to him, it would be a misunderstanding which has been clarified, the letter providing details on the prohibited dyes.
“The color tattoo is saved. It would have been a real loss of profit,” he said, quoted by Le Monde.fr. Knowing that 90% of tattoos are in color, this news relieves the 3,500 to 4,000 tattoo professionals who feared having to banish a large part of their inks from their workplace for safety reasons.
A misinterpreted table
A ministerial decree, currently suspended until January 1, pointed to 59 dyes out of 153 used in cosmetics, including tattoo inks. The association Tatouage & Partage supported for its part a bad interpretation of the decree by the administrations in charge of the file.
More exactly, it would be a question of a bad reading of one of the four tables of the decree, listing the dyes that can contain cosmetic products. “We decided to take on a specialist who took over the 3,600 pages of European texts and their French application, and we realized that there was nothing to change, the decree was good but that We just didn’t understand!” explains Cécile Chaudesaigues, secretary of the association, at Monde.fr.
