EU SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE PROBES ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY OF COATING CHEMICALS
August 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KEY European Union (EU) scientific committee is examining chemicals used by a wide range of polluting industries, to determine their safety to the environment, ahead of a European Commission water quality review. Brussels officials are planning to ask EU ministers and MEPs to approve new and revised EU Environmental Quality Standards (EQS) that limit how much certain chemicals can leach into surface waters. Ahead of this, the EU's scientific committee on health and environmental risks is taking a detailed look at some chemicals under ...
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