Chemicals Management Position Statements
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Position StatementUK REACH Briefing
The government has proposed extending the deadlines for businesses to submit dossiers for transitional registrations under UK REACH for the third time, putting the first deadline seven years later than originally proposed.
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Position StatementMoving Towards Animal-free Chemical Safety Assessment - Overarching Principles
Joint CTPA, CIA, IFRA, BCF and CBA paper: UK chemical sectors commit to moving away from the use of animals in the safety assessment of chemicals, and developing & implementing Non-Animal New Approach Methodologies (NAMs).
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Position StatementReducing and Refining the Reliance on Animal Testing in Chemicals Regulation
Chemical regulations often require the testing of chemicals on vertebrates to ensure safety of consumers, workers, and the environment.
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Position StatementUK’s approach to managing chemicals of concern under REACH: Building on progress
The Chemical Industries Association highlights the UK’s independent approach to regulating chemicals of concern under UK REACH following its separation from EU REACH.
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Position StatementEssential Uses Concept – Is this viable for wider chemicals legislation?
With the growing scientific debate around how to best manage persistent chemicals found in the environment, the concept of essential use has been put forward as a potential regulatory tool to manage large ‘families’ of chemicals.
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Position StatementPersistent Chemicals
An important topic of focus within the current landscape of risk and hazard identification in chemicals is that of persistency.
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Position StatementGrouping of Chemical Substances
How to best group similar chemical substances is not a new topic. Both regulators and industry have been doing this as a matter of course for the purpose of managing them in the most effective way and also to protect animal welfare.
