EUROPEAN CHEMICAL AGENCY PUSHES AHEAD WITH REACH REGISTRATION PROCESS
June 1st, 2008
BY ALAN OSBORN
A SIGNIFICANT new phase in the application of the European Union's (EU) crucial REACH regulation for controlling the use of chemicals throughout the 27 EU countries came into effect at the beginning of June. This involved the invoking of a deadline essentially giving the cosmetics and other chemical-based industries six months to lodge registration, pre-registration and other notifications before risking their products being banned. REACH (the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) which entered into force on June 1, ...
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