This week's episode sees emerging markets reporter Ginger Hervey, North America managing editor Terry Hyland and Europe desk editor Luke Buxton of Chemical Watch join global managing editor Kate Lowe to discuss the latest chemicals management stories.
Topics include US president Joe Biden’s decision to direct the US EPA and other federal agencies to review, and consider rescinding, regulations and policies issued in the last four years, including several under the TSCA programme.
The team also catch up with a UN expert committee and its finding that a UV stabiliser widely used in plastics meets the criteria to be listed as a persistent organic pollutant (POP) under the Stockholm Convention, moving the substance closer to a possible global ban.
But this latest episode of the podcast starts out with the thorny subject of data sharing following the end of the Brexit transition period.
Last week the UK’s Chemical Industries Association (CIA) questioned whether the door really is "fully shut" on the question of access for UK companies to data in the EU REACH system – especially when, the CIA says, businesses on both sides are in favour of it.