The UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution has published its report "Chemicals in Products - Safeguarding the Environment and Human Health" today. Conclusions from the report:

• support for precautionary approach
• the substitution principle should be a "central objective of chemicals policy"
• when chemicals are found in bodies/breast milk, "regulatory steps should be taken to remove them from the market immediately"
• foreign manufacturers and importers should have obligations to register dangerous chemicals
• an internet list of ALL chemicals on the market, with data on persistence, bioaccumulation and toxicity

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