EU members oppose threshold policy for REACH high concern chemicals
This article was originally published in SRA
Executive Summary
Six European member states have formally rejected a European Commission policy under which the limit placed on chemical substances of very high concern applies only to finished products1,2. The dissenting views issued by Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany and Sweden say that the threshold level for these substances (eg carcinogens, mutagens or those toxic to reproduction) should apply to a product’s homogeneous materials or individual components, and not to the complex product itself3.
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