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While the so-called fiscal cliff has been avoided, sequestration still looms for FDA and other government agencies. The European Chemicals Agency updates its list of Substances of Very High Concern.

The eleventh-hour legislative deal reached in Congress on New Year’s Day to avert the so-called fiscal cliff addresses looming tax increases but merely postpones another major element – implementation of the federal budget sequestration scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1. The American Taxpayer Relief Act, H.R. 8 – which passed the House and Senate Jan. 1 and was signed by President Obama Jan. 3 – delays until March 1 across-the-board government spending cuts that will impact funding for FDA’s regulatory programs ([A#02121008007]). Negotiations on possible cuts in entitlement programs will continue over the next two months. More than $300 million will be trimmed from FDA’s budget if proposed funding cuts are enacted, representing a reduction of about 8%.

In the closing weeks of 2012, the European Chemicals Agency added 54 Substances of Very High Concern to its candidate...

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