The Commission has organised another experts’ meeting on 7 April on criteria for identifying biocide products that act as endocrine disruptors. Although no vote is planned, the Commission is hoping to make progress on the chemical products deliberately devised to disrupt the endocrine system (so-called “growth regulators”).
In the middle of last year, the Commission proposed maintaining three criteria for identifying (and ultimately banning) chemical substances that have a hazardous...