PHARMA INDUSTRY SAYS EDC CRITERIA NEED RISK-BASED APPROACH
July 1st, 2016
The European Commission’s long awaited criteria to determine which substances are endocrine disrupting (hormone changing) chemicals (EDCs) and so should be banned under the European Union’s biocidal (BPR) and plant protection products (PPPR) regulations should be based on risk not hazard, the pharmaceutical industry has warned.
EU health and food safety Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis unveiled the criteria on June 15 in Brussels, proclaiming the EU regulatory system “the first worldwide to define such criteria in legislation”. He assured journalists ...
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