In this week’s edition of the Chemical Watch news podcast North America managing editor, Terry Hyland, Europe correspondent, Clelia Oziel, and science editor, Andrew Turley, join global managing editor, Kate Lowe, to discuss the implications of three of our latest news stories.
The agenda for today’s episode includes Washington state’s announcement that it will prohibit the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in four types of food packaging, after it identified viable alternatives.
We also take a look at the UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) plan to seek independent advice on UK REACH authorisations and restrictions by drawing from a pool of experts on a case-by-case basis, in an approach that deviates from Echa’s.
But we kick off with the European Commission's loss of a landmark appeal case to reverse an annulment of its decision to authorise lead chromates in paints.
In its judgment published last week, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) upheld a 2019 ruling that cancelled the authorisation granted to Canadian company, Dominion Colour Corporation, to sell pigments for paints containing lead chromates on the single market.