Chemistry organisations call for clarity over government’s long-delayed chemicals strategy

The leaders of five organisations, including chemical bodies and environmental charities, have publicly urged the UK government to provide clarity over a chemicals strategy it committed to producing six years ago. There is still no sign of the strategy, raising concerns that the country will be hampered in efforts to tackle pollution and improve sustainability in industry.

In 2018, when Theresa May was prime minister, the UK government produced a 25 year environment plan in which it promised to publish a chemicals strategy. According to the government, this strategy would ‘support collaborative work on human biomonitoring, address combination effects of different chemicals and improve the way we track chemicals across supply chains’.