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ECHA Shirking Animal-Test Avoidance Duties? Challenge May Go To EU Court

 
• By Ryan Nelson

Animal welfare groups say ECHA’s approach to animal testing proposals under REACH has changed negligibly since a European ombudsman solution rendered in September 2015. ECHA is now requiring registrants to account for alternative considerations, but says it has no power to reject testing proposals on the grounds that such considerations are inadequate, a position the groups may challenge in the courts.

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Cruelty Free International expects a response by the end of March from the European ombudsman regarding the European Chemical Agency’s alleged maladministration of REACH’s “last resort” principle, a dispute that could move next to the EU courts.

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