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    April 3, 2025

    The UK has failed to regulate chemicals post-Brexit

    NewsWater

    It has been more than four years since the UK set up its own chemicals regulatory regime post-Brexit, however senior campaigner at Chem Trust Chloe Alexander notes that the UK has failed to restrict a single substance since it departed from the European Union (EU).

    In fact, despite more than four years of regulatory analysis and consultation, at an estimated cost to the UK taxpayer of half a million pounds, Labour recently announced another delay to a decision on whether to ban toxic lead ammunition.

    Chloe reports that in comparison, during the same period, the EU has enacted 10 restrictions, or bans, on harmful substances, including subgroups of toxic per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), lead in PVC, microplastics intentionally added to products, carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons used in synthetic football pitches and a ban on lead ammunition in wetlands.

    To read more about the reasons for EU’s progress in comparison to the UK’s stagnation, you can read the full article here.

    Tagged: Brexit, Chemical, EU, lead, Pollution

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