(4 December 2024) “Chemical grouping […] is a good way to simplify […]. By looking at groups [of chemicals], we can in a way address all the chemicals in one setting but also give the industry the certainty about the actions that are going to happen to a particular chemical”, said Dr. Sharon McGuinness, Executive-director of the European Chemicals Agency, ECHA.
She explained that action taken on individual chemicals could lead the industry to move to other chemicals which “may have the same hazard or risk associated with it”.
She specified that using grouping does not prevent discussions about the size of the group, which the Agency is “very much minded to do”.
- European Parliament, exchange of views with Dr. Sharon McGuinness in the Environment committee (from 11:37:30) (4 Dec. 2024)
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