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  • Issue Brief: REACH

    Implications from laboratory to shop-shelf

    20 Feb 2007 – Article

    Why the new REACH regulation (standing for the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of CHemicals) is significant, not just for chemical companies but for whole swathes of industry and business in Europe and beyond.

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  • Issue Brief: Chemicals

    Bodily trespass and the toxics debate in the EU

    25 Aug 2005 – Article

    Toxic chemicals have long been a priority of both leading chemical companies and campaigning NGOs. This Issue Brief examines how conflicts over the chemical safety regulation REACH have helped create and frame a new agenda and debate in this area.

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  • Radar: The Consumer Issue

    Born to Shop?

    05 Dec 2004 – Radar Archive

    The facts on such issues as fair wages, eco-efficiency, chemical loads and human rights demand that we consume more carefully. The issue confronts the complexities of trying to reconcile our ‘wants’ with our ‘needs’.

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  • The Changing Landscape of Liability

    A Director's guide to trends in corporate environmental, social and economic liability

    30 Nov 2004 – Report

    The landscape of liability is changing and changing rapidly. This report explores the evidence, maps the changes and attempts to guide business with the help of studies to navigate new and uncharted territory.

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  • Issue Brief: Nanotechnology

    It’s a small world

    15 Aug 2003 – Article

    Critics argue nanotechnology is being used without appropriate risk analysis or societal consultation. The potential stakeholder concerns could well put recent outrage around novel technology, like GM, in the shade.

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