mer, 10 Avr 2024
Swiss Federal Supreme Court’s decision against Basel bar solidifies nitrous oxide ban, setting a nationwide precedent for health and youth protection.
The Federal Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a bar against the ban on the sale of nitrous oxide in Basel. This means that the corresponding decisions of the Department of Health and the Court of Appeal are now legally binding, as the Cantonal Laboratory announced on Wednesday.
In 2021, the laboratory ordered a Basel catering business to ban the distribution of nitrous oxide for inhalation purposes. An appeal against this ban was rejected by the Department of Health and, at second instance, by the Court of Appeal on the grounds that the distribution of nitrous oxide is prohibited under both the Chemicals Act and the Foodstuffs Act.
The Federal Supreme Court has now also had to deal with the case in question. It has not accepted an appeal by the operator.
The Cantonal Laboratory welcomes this decision in the interests of protecting young people and health, as it writes. The laboratory assumes that this decision will have a signal effect throughout Switzerland.
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