Government under pressure to adopt US style regulation of industrial chemicals

The government is coming under pressure from the chemicals industry to relax the rules on how chemical safety information is managed, according to an article on the Green Alliance blog. Post-Brexit the UK  no longer has access to chemical safety information held under EU REACH regulations (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) and the chemicals industry is arguing that it should not be required to provide the same robust information as was required under the EU regulations.  As the HSE builds UK REACH, the Government must be held  to the Conservative Party’s manifesto pledge for the UK to have the most ambitious environmental programme anywhere on earth!