For reasons of public health, the European Parliament opposed, on Thursday 24 October, the European Commission's proposal to grant authorisation for the use of chromium trioxide, a carcinogenic chemical substance, to the company Cromomend SA and to others who have made the same request with it.
The objection was narrowly adopted (301 votes in favour, 295 against, 45 abstentions).
Since 2010, chromium trioxide has been included in the list of chemical substances of very high concern in...