The European Commission has brought only marginal changes to its proposals on endocrine disruptors, according to documents seen by EUROPE. Health organisations and the industry are disappointed.
In mid-June, the Commission set out a series of criteria to identify (and, ultimately, ban) chemicals that have a harmful effect on the hormonal system (the so-called endocrine disruptors) (see EUROPE 11573). In its proposals on pesticides and biocides, it used the following three cumulative...