This week’s Chemical Watch news podcast sees North America desk editor Kelly Franklin and Europe correspondent Clelia Oziel join news editor Charlotte Niemiec to discuss the latest developments in the world of chemicals management.
In this edition, the team takes a closer look at a potential ‘compromise’ solution from UK ministers, attempting to end a long and still ongoing dispute over costly UK REACH data requirements. The compromise would require industry to submit some ‘extra data’ – but not full datasets – on all grandfathered substances under UK REACH.
But first the team turns to the US, where California's Department of Toxic Substances Control has been preparing to name PFAS-containing carpets and rugs its next ‘priority product’ under the state’s Safer Consumer Products (SCP) programme.