Target and Wal-Mart Announce Safer Products Programs While Congress Vows to Reform TSCA

摘要

Faced with the failure by Congress to pass comprehensive chemical reform legislation along with a growing number of consumers concerned about the things they're bringing into their homes, a number of major retailers are becoming proactive about toxic chemicals in the products they sell. Target and Wal-Mart are the most recent in a growing list of retailers adopting their own standards to monitor the chemicals in the products in their stores rather than just reacting to government initiated bans and recalls. Coupled with California's recently enacted Safer Consumer Products legislation, the European Union's REACH laws and headway in Korea, Taiwan and India to adopt chemical reform measures, manufacturers who market their products globally are faced with a myriad of laws and standards to consider.