ECJ CENSURES COMMISSION OVER ENDOCRINE DISRUPTER GUIDANCE DELAYS – BUT INDUSTRY WELCOMES BRUSSELS’ CAUTION

THE COSMETICS and chemical sectors within the European Union (EU) have backed the European Commission after it was censured by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) over its failure to set criteria for identifying endocrine disrupters in biocides. Brussels was supposed under the EU’s biocidal products regulation to produce formal guidance on what constitutes an endocrine disrupting chemical, so that chemical industries such as the personal care product sector can comply with its rule that endocrine disrupting biocides should not be approved for EU use. European ...


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