This week’s Podcast Short highlights stories from Europe, North America and the business sector.
In Europe, some UK industry groups have given up hope that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) will make changes to the UK REACH registration model and are instead taking their concerns over costs directly to the prime minister and the Treasury.
Meanwhile, in the US, the Fifth Circuit’s September ruling that nullified the EPA’s TSCA risk management rule for methylene chloride raises interesting questions about what happens when regulatory science collides with legal interpretation.
Other stories highlighted this week include:
- a look at the contentious debate over defining "consumer use" under the EU’s forthcoming PFAS restriction;
- Canada's plans for developing regulations to define criteria for carcinogenic, mutagenic and reprotoxic (CMR) substances; and
- VF Corporation discussing why it is scrapping its goal to phase out ‘unwanted’ chemicals.
Tune in to hear more about our top stories from the last week and then visit Chemical Watch News & Insight to catch all the latest chemicals management news from around the globe.
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