Cry Wolf

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This is a very useful report illustrating how industry has exaggerated the financial cost of proposed legislation which would require stronger controls on chemicals at work and environmentally. Be it asbestos, cotton dust, vinyl chloride or chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) industry has always loosed their seemingly bottomless bank accounts to fund massive PR campaigns to prevent new legislation protecting workers and the environment. This brief document published by the International Chemical Secretariat with the support of the World Wildlife Fund was clearly produced to defend against American and European chemical companies continuing attacks on the EU's new chemical control proposals known as REACH (see Daily Hazard No. 79). While dealing exclusively with chemical issues the principles it discusses cross over to other health and safety fields, such as the massive industry campaign to undermine the Framework Directive and other EU Directives, notably those on VDU work and more recently vibration.

www.panda.org/downloads/europe/crywolf0404b.pdf

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