EU ROUND UP – SHAKE UP OF EUROPEAN CHEMICAL REGULATORS AND DATA COLLECTION PROPOSED
April 19th, 2024
The European Parliament and EU Council of Ministers are debating plans to streamline European Union (EU) chemical assessment controls, notably creating a new central chemical risk database to be run by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). This will subsume some existing EU chemical databases, such as the Information Platform for Chemical Monitoring (IPCHEM), a repository of reference values and a database of study notifications, into its new system. Under the proposals, chemical risk assessment information will be passed to ECHA by the European Environment ...
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