Fight­ing for improved chem­i­cal reg­u­la­tions in the EU & UK

CHEM Trust

The release of harm­ful syn­thet­ic chem­i­cals into our envi­ron­ment has been hap­pen­ing for decades. These chem­i­cals are often used with incom­plete safe­ty assess­ments, and only a few of the most haz­ardous chem­i­cals have ever been banned. 

The pri­ma­ry EU chem­i­cals leg­is­la­tion, REACH, is cur­rent­ly under­go­ing its most sig­nif­i­cant revi­sion in 15 years, amidst a coor­di­nat­ed ​“assault” by the chem­i­cals indus­try to loosen its con­trols, under­min­ing the EU’s ​“gold stan­dard” pol­i­cy. CHEM Trust aims to ensure that the most pro­tec­tive EU chem­i­cal reg­u­la­tions and restric­tions on haz­ardous tox­ins are main­tained and imple­ment­ed, and that UK leg­is­la­tion, post-Brex­it, is as close­ly aligned to the EU as possible. 

By pro­vid­ing sci­ence-based pol­i­cy solu­tions to the chem­i­cal prob­lems in the EU and glob­al­ly, and pro­duc­ing easy-to-under­stand, com­pelling nar­ra­tives to the broad­er pub­lic, this project will help keep the issue of chem­i­cal pol­lu­tion high on the polit­i­cal agen­da, and avoid deci­sion-mak­ers being swayed by the ever-present indus­try lob­by­ing and polit­i­cal shifts.

For more information visit: https://chemtrust.org/