Wallström Calls for Creation of UN Panel to Protect Against Chemical Risks

Margot Wallström, the European Commission v.p. and the architect of the European Union’s (EU) Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (Reach) program, has called for a new high level United Nations (UN) panel to tackle the risks posed by man-made chemicals.    Speaking at the official opening of the European Chemicals Agency’s (Helsinki) conference center Wallström said such a UN panel “would tackle the risks from chemicals in the same way that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change...

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