No Data, No Market: the EU Gets Serious About Chemicals
TreeHugger - 5/3/2009. The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has announced the start of the first REACH enforcement project. REACH = Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of CHemicals. One goal of the enforcement project is to check if any chemicals are still coming onto the market in the European Union which were not registered by the 1 December 2008 deadline. Registered substances, also known as phase-in substances, may continue to be sold while manufacturers gather and submit the required test data to prove that use and sale of their chemicals is safe. But companies that somehow missed the deadline will be in for a surprise: the law promises that any chemicals which are not registered may not be sold. Only after all data is gathered and submitted can these chemicals once again be sold in Europe. No data, no market.
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Study Released On Food Company Use Of BPA
La Vida Locavore - 5/2/2009. Green Century Capital Management and As You Sow have released a report, (pdf) "Seeking Safer Packaging", looking at how 20 major publicly-traded food companies are seeking to address public health concerns regarding use of the dangerous industrial chemical bisphenol A in their food packaging.
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