‘Americexit: Understanding the Increasing Divisions in the United States as Individual US States Add Their Own Product Safety Requirements’
Plenary session 7: ‘Americexit’ featured insight from a strategic advisor, a regulatory affairs leader and a global product compliance leader from a global company.
The panel explored how, while Europe largely consolidates its product safety requirements at the European Union level, there has been decentralisation of regulation in the US and a trend of individual states adopting their own regulations. The panel expects that states will increase legislation focused on the environment and consumer protection and noted that at least 32 states are considering policies to ban certain chemicals. They also explained that states are tending to focus on regulating chemicals by hazard rather than by risk, and expect a focus on the regulation of chemical classes in an attempt to avoid piecemeal legislation.
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