With the ten-year anniversary of REACH next year, it is interesting for those of us who have been in the Brussels bubble since the beginning to look back at how chemicals policy has evolved. Around 1997, when I joined Cefic, politicians, NGOs and industry raised concerns that the existing regulatory system for managing chemicals was not working well. A major issue, especially for politicians, was the fact that thousands of existing substances were produced and used without there being sufficient information about their properties.
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