15/10/2003 (Agence Europe) - The WWF has stated in a press release that, according to recent calculations by the European Commission, the cost of identifying and gradually eliminating harmful chemical products, as proposed by the Commission in its controversial REACH legislation, could cost the chemical industry 2 billion EUR over ten years, and users 5 billion EUR (assuming that the industry will pass its costs on downstream). These costs should not be added together as some have done, says...