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Mistress Rose
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Having looked at the REACH regulations when they first came in with regard to charcoal, they were very bureaucratic and were way beyond the affordability of the UK artisan charcoal industry, which would have meant it ceased, leaving only less environmentally friendly imported charcoal. Fortunately, as charcoal is something that has been made in its present form for 1000s of years, it was decided that the industry didn't need to conform.
I started doing chemistry at a time when regulation was rather less rigid than today. We had a chemical in our cupboard at work that was labelled as 'harmful' in the early 1970s. My boss needed to use it to make up a small silver plating bath so contacted the suppliers and found out it was something like silver cyanide. The effects of lax regulation.
The objective of REACH was to ensure that new chemicals were characterised and understood as far as possible before large quantities were made, although the amount was about 1 ton I think. Overall, I think the REACH is a good idea, and I certainly don't agree with relaxing regulations, particularly as the reasons for doing so are the wrong reasons, probably decided upon by people who have no knowledge of chemistry. If we go away from Europe, it means that two sets of regulations have to be sorted out, leading to extra expense, and that lower levels of regulation and enforcement will lead to unscrupulous people taking advantage of what they can 'get away with'. |
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