UK chemicals regulation is broken – and omitted from all party manifestos

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There are a number of options the new government can embrace to fix the country's failing chemicals regulation regime, writes the Royal Society of Chemistry's Stephanie Metzger

Every one of us interacts with chemicals every day – they are in the water we drink, the products we use and the air we breathe. The chemical and pharmaceutical industries turn over £50bn and add £18bn...

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