EUROPEAN COMMISSION ANNOUNCES UPCOMING FRESH CHEMICAL CONTROLS FOR TEXTILE PRODUCTS
September 2nd, 2020
TEXTILE finishers and their suppliers working in the European Union (EU) are to face increasing controls over their use of potentially toxic chemicals under a new policy paper released on October 14 by the European Commission.
This ‘Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability Towards a Toxic-Free Environment’ flags three important changes that the EU executive intends to make to European chemical legislation that will impact the textile sector.
The first is by orienting the EU’s ‘substances of concern’ controls to chemicals used in the textile sector to ...
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