The Government's Chemicals Strategy:
Sustainable Production and Use of Chemicals -
A Strategic Approach
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The Chemicals Strategy sets out Government policies to avoid harm to the environment or to human health through environmental exposure to chemicals. The main goals of the Strategy are to:
- make full information publicly available about the environmental risks of chemicals;
- continue reduction of risks presented by chemicals to the environment and human health - while maintaining the competitivenesss of industry;
- phase out early those chemicals identified as representing an unacceptable risk to the environment;
The Strategy proposes measures to speed up assessment of the environmental risks posed by chemicals. The Strategy also proposes that a Stakeholder Forum with representatives of all those groups with an interest in chemicals should be set up to help build consensus on future policy on chemicals and the environment.
The strategy builds on ideas set out in the 1998 consultation document Sustainable Production and Use of Chemicals, and the responses to it. See also Timetable of progress
For further information contact chemicals.strategy@defra.gsi.gov.uk
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