US senator calls for consensus on planned chemical safety bill

In the USA, Senator Frank Lautenberg repeated his intention to introduce a safe chemicals bill in the coming weeks at yesterday’s hearing on "Current Science on Public Exposures to Toxic Chemicals" held by the Senate’s Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health. He said the bill would aim to force chemical producers to prove chemicals are safe before they are put on the market, or end up in humans. He noted that many...

• Senate hearing documents
• ACC written testimony
• ACC press release
• SOCMA written testimony