What might UK Reach look like?

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As the UK’s legal system finds its feet post-Brexit, stakeholders have mixed feelings about the changes it could bring

Four months into the UK being fully divorced from the EU, the chemical industry has had its first taste of operating under a separate legal system for chemicals. But rather than get their teeth into a fully thought-out version of the country’s own Reach (registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals) legislation, companies are facing a law that is just beginning to evolve.