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The European Union's chemical legislation needs revision

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In the Second Regulatory Review on Nanomaterials1, the European Commission acknowledges that nanomaterials are revolutionary materials and that important challenges exist in regard to hazard and exposure assessments. Yet, they conclude that current risk-assessment methods are applicable to nanomaterials, and that the European chemical legislative (known as REACH: Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) “...sets the best possible framework for the risk management of nanomaterials”1. Here, I argue that significant changes to REACH and the accompanying annexes are required to answer the call made by the public, downstream users and progressive businesses for clearer and more definite regulatory rules specific to nanomaterials2.

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