TOBACCO INDUSTRY FACES MAJOR PLANNED TIGHTENING AND EXPANSION OF EU CHEMICAL REGULATION

THE TOBACCO industry will be keeping a close eye on the latest set of reforms to the European Union’s (EU) chemical control legislation, which will impose new controls on accidental chemical mixtures, products incorporated chemicals and will change the tobacco products directive (TPD). In particular, this ‘Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability Towards a Toxic-Free Environment’ commits the EU executive, the European Commission, to “improve the assessments of the mixtures used in the manufacture of tobacco and related products by using where possible ...


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