TEXTILE INDUSTRY TO SCRUTINISE UNPOPULAR COMMISSION CRITERIA ON ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS
June 1st, 2016
The European textile industry has launched a consultation to examine long overdue criteria released by the European Commission last week (June 15) to determine which substances are endocrine disrupting (hormone changing) chemicals (EDCs) and hence controlled under European Union (EU) law. These substances could be banned under the EU’s biocidal products regulation (BPR) and plant protection products (PPPR) regulation.
“We initiated a consultation with our members in the very same week the proposals were announced,” Mauro Scalia, manager of sustainable ...
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