NONYLPHENOL
May 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLRESTRICTIONS on the marketing and use of nonylphenol and nonylphenolethoxylates have been formally approved by the European Union (EU) Council of Ministers for industry. It accepted amendments previously passed to this directive by the European Parliament and so the legislation passed without having to receive a second reading by MEPs. Nonylphenol and nonylphenolethoxylates is used in the production of resins, plastics, stabilisers in the polymer industry, in the manufacture of phenolic oximes, and in some speciality paints. The legislation ...
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