REACH HAS NOT DEALT DISASTER – BUT PROBLEMS LOOM AS SMALLER VOLUMES ARE CONTROLLED
July 1st, 2012
BY ALAN OSBORN
IT won't be certain for some time yet but signs are growing that the European Union's (EU) massive and complex REACH policy to enforce the registration and control of chemicals is proving nothing like the disaster that the cosmetics and detergents industries might once have feared. REACH - an acronym for the registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals - has been brought in to improve human and environmental safety through "better and earlier identification of the intrinsic properties of chemical substances."
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