BPF Given seat on DEFRA: CSF

The British Plastics Federation was invited by a DEFRA Minister to become a member of the UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum (CSF). Peter Davis, Director-General of the BPF will attend the Forum’s meeting on 14th October in Cardiff.

Members of the CSF include: Greenpeace, TUC, British Retail Consortium, Royal Society of Chemistry and the Green Chemistry Network.  The CSF focuses on: REACH Implementation progress, options for prioritisation of substances, chemicals under consideration, conformity of imported chemicals’ substitution and international chemicals update.

Peter Davis said, “We welcome membership of the Forum as a means to ensure that only scientific fact predominates as a judge of alleged chemical hazard. We will pressure the authorities to ensure that imported substances that fraudulently claim to conform to REACH are firmly kept out of the UK.”

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For further information on this press release, please contact Philip Batten, British Plastics Federation, 6 Bath Place, Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3JE, tel 020 7457 5000, fax 020 7457 5045, email: [email protected]

Notes for editors

1) British Plastics Federation (BPF) is the UK trade association for the plastics industry - representing the whole supply chain including polymer producers, distributors, additives suppliers, machinery manufacturers, processors and recyclers.