This week’s Chemical Watch news podcast sees North America managing editor Terry Hyland, Asia desk editor David Macfarlane and Europe desk editor Luke Buxton join news editor Charlotte Niemiec to discuss the latest developments.
In this episode, we look at the regulation of five persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) substances under TSCA in the US. NGOs, scientists and attorneys general have called for the rules to be toughened, while industry groups have claimed they need significantly more time to comply with at least one of the bans, for PIP 3:1.
We also examine how the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic in Taiwan is pushing back regulatory deadlines on both priority existing chemicals registration and the cosmetics prohibited list.
And we finish with news that an NGO in the EU has accused the European Commission of blocking progress on restriction proposals for lead compounds.