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Bridging The Data Gap: Balancing The Supply And Demand For Chemical Information, John S. Applegate
Bridging The Data Gap: Balancing The Supply And Demand For Chemical Information, John S. Applegate
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Synthesizing Tsca And Reach: Practical Principles For Chemical Regulation Reform, John S. Applegate
Synthesizing Tsca And Reach: Practical Principles For Chemical Regulation Reform, John S. Applegate
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The European Union's newly enacted comprehensive regulation for industrial chemicals, known as REACH, draws heavily on three decades of experience in the United States under the Toxic Substances Control Act. Much of that experience has been negative, inasmuch as TSCA is widely regarded as a disappointment among US environmental laws, and so REACH deliberately reverses many of the legislative choices that Congress made in TSCA. REACH also takes advantage of important new regulatory concepts that were not available to the framers of TSCA thirty years ago. The passage of REACH has sparked renewed interest in reforming TSCA, and the reformers …