EPA and European Chemicals Agency Enter Partnership with a Common Goal

• Date: December 28, 2010
• Source: Admin

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) have joined hands to promote technical cooperation on chemical management activities. ECHA is the agency that implements the European Union’s chemical management program known as REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals). In line with their shared commitment to improve chemical safety, ECHA and the EPA have signed a statement of intent to cooperate at the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) meeting in Washington, D.C. In practice, the cooperation will take place between ECHA and the EPA’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics and the National Centre for Computational Toxicology.