NEW EU BIOCIDES LAW POSES NEW LEGISLATIVE DEMANDS TO PERSONAL CARE PRODUCT SECTOR
May 1st, 2013
ALL the focus in European Union (EU) cosmetic chemical regulation has recently been on the REACH control system, but in September that will change when the EU’s new biocidal products regulation comes into force.Like the cosmetics directive, biocides have their own special EU legislation, although – unlike the cosmetics law – the biocidal products legislation has not been overly effective. Until now, biocides – widely used by the personal care product sector – have been controlled in the EU by a directive, the EU biocidal products directive (BPD) ...
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