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BCF ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About New UK Plan for Chemicals

The new proposal seems to offer the potential for a much more workable and proportionate system.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

A newly published ‘policy direction’ by Defra for UK REACH has been received with cautious optimism by the British Coatings Federation. The new proposals seem to respond to some of the concerns previously expressed by the British Coatings Federation on behalf of the coatings sector and others in the chemicals industry supply chain. These concerns included, in particular, that full data dossiers for all 20,000 chemical substances currently in the EU REACH database did not need to be recreat...

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