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Legislative issues REACH legislation

However, this request of more animal testing faces several issues. There is an ethical concern on the millions of animals used every year for experiments. These tests are also those more expensive, and thus this poses questions about the costs for these experiments and the resources to cover them. Many of these tests, especially the chronic ones, require long times, years in some cases. The number of available laboratories in Europe to cover this potential request is insufficient. For all these reasons, some European regulations foresee the use of methods alternative to animal tests, such as the REACH legislation, and actually the cosmetics directive foresees the complete ban of animal tests for cosmetics by 2013. [Pg.173]

To understand the issues involved in chemicals regulation one needs to have some understanding of the different types of chemicals and the development of the chemicals industry. The next section of this chapter therefore outlines the relevant background information. I then go on to describe European legislation on synthetic chemicals (from which UK legislation derives). Finally, I outline some of the relevant issues in the debates that preceded the introduction of REACH. [Pg.60]

REACH has provided a structure in which a well-informed chemicals risk management can be developed. In particular, it creates a legislative and regulatory framework for all substances in which the procurement of data for making reasonably reliable risk assessment is possible. But on the other hand, as we have seen, it does not require the creation of such data for all substances for which it is needed. This should be no surprise. The deficiencies in the previous system of chemicals regulation were so large that it would be unrealistic to believe that they could be solved in one single reform. It is only to be expected that there should be scope for improvement. A discussion is needed that identifies the most important of the potential improvements of the system, and in this spirit we would like to propose three important issues for the further development of REACH. [Pg.81]

The next Chapter exposes how without careful attention to particular issues during implementation the REACH legislative text is unlikely to deliver the recommendations identified in Table 4.6. Several examples are presented in Chapter 5 that illustrate how the strengths and weakness of the national approaches tend to hinder rather than facilitate EU decision-making. The proposed systems framework for decision-making under REACH then seeks to rectify these potential shortcomings of the legislation. [Pg.153]

An attempt was made during 1977-1980 to resolve all of these issues through a comprehensive revision of the new drug provisions of the FD C Act. The legislation passed the Senate in 1979 but did not reach the floor of the House and, because the legislation was so detailed and complex, it was never again seriously considered. [Pg.675]

We have discussed a series of examples and aspects, such as the problem of risk and sustainability assessment, tools and principles for a sustainable industrial development (in particular, the issue of scaling-down and intensification of chemical processes, and the role of catalysis), and problems and opportunities in substituting chemical and processes (also in the view of REACH legislation, and of the international chemicals policy on sustainability). These topics are expanded in the following chapters, while the final section on industrial case histories for sustainable chemical processes provides further hints on these aspects. [Pg.69]


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