The Reac Pandemic

摘要

The world over, countries are adopting the core elements of REACH, Europe's three-year-old regulation on chemical use. As the EC's Environment Commission states, REACH aims to improve the protection of human health and the environment through the better and earlier identification of the intrinsic properties of chemical substances (http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/ reach/reach_intro.htm). But what it says next is equally important: "At the same time, innovative capability and competitiveness of the EU chemicals industry should be enhanced" [italics mine].