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  • How can standards help protect us from harmful chemicals?

    Standards play an essential role in enforcing bans or restrictions of harmful chemicals – standardised testing methods are needed to detect a target substance in materials or products. Some endocrine-disrupting chemicals are already restricted and it’s likely that more will be regulated in the future – meaning that timely and up-to-date testing standards are needed to avoid further delays.

  • Detecting endocrine disrupting chemicals in products

    Chemical regulation moves rapidly across sectors - through overarching or product specific restrictions. Against a backdrop of growing awareness of substances of concern and pathways of exposure, science is also moving quickly to develop best methods and testing practices to detect these substances reliably and at low levels. Standards will play a significant role in developing testing methods as further chemical restrictions are introduced.

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