This week’s edition of the Chemical Watch news podcast sees business editor Leigh Stringer, Europe reporter Kathryn Carlson and North America managing editor Terry Hyland join global managing editor Kate Lowe to examine the latest developments in chemicals management across the globe.
The subjects we discuss in this edition include the US state of Oregon’s Toxic Free Kids Programme under which substances of concern are to be phased out of many children’s products.
We also take a look at the latest thinking from the European Commission on the potential of ‘essential use’ criteria from the Montreal Protocol – which regulates substances that deplete the ozone layer – for controlling hazardous chemicals under REACH.
But we start this week's episode with the Belgium-based chemical company Solvay which has denied NGO claims that it is hindering research into a new per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS), by issuing a patent violation notification to a laboratory for selling its analytical reference standard on the chemical.