FINAL REACH BANNED CHEMICAL LIST TO HIT EUROPEAN TEXTILE DYE SECTOR
November 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A KEY textile chemical industry federation has said it is too early to predict whether dyes and related substances would fall foul of the registration process of the newly approved European Union (EU) REACH chemical control system. Under the final legislative text approved in December by the European Parliament and European Union (EU) Council of Ministers, there are no immediately blacklisted chemicals. Instead, most chemical substances used in the textile dying sector will be subject to a health and environmental assessment under REACH, which ...
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