PAN Europe has enjoined the European Commission to radically change its proposals on endocrine disruptors if it is to win the support of a qualified majority of member states, which are due to come to a decision in the next few weeks.
In mid-June, the Commission brought forward a raft of criteria to identify (and ultimately ban) chemical substances that adversely affect the hormonal system (endocrine disruptors) (see EUROPE 11573). For this, it took three criteria from the 2002 definition...