Pro-green MEPs are building momentum for stronger substitution rules on toxic substances as the EU's landmark chemicals bill - REACH - heads into its final legislative stage, but the EU chemicals industry lobby and US diplomats still stand in the way.
Seven years in the making and due to come into force next April, the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals [REACH] law is set to impose a raft of new public health safeguards on some 30,000 chemicals used in household ite...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.