Chemicals in Europe: "Arbitration at the Expense of Health"

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Promised since 2020, the revision of the European Chemicals Regulation (Reach) has been abandoned by the European Commission. A decision that does not take account of advances in science, regrets the epidemiologist Remy Slama.

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After six years of postponements, the European Commission has recently decided to bury its far-reaching reform on the regulation of chemicals ("Reach"). The need to update this policy, to better frame endocrine disruptors for example, has weighed less heavily than industrial lobbying.