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Sweden threatens to sue the EU over chemicals


Sweden threatened Wednesday to sue the European Commission over a delay in identifying harmful chemicals in everyday products. The Commission was supposed to set criteria by December 2013 for identifying endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in thousands of anti-bacterial products-- found in items such as clothes, shoes and toiletries -- which have been linked to cancers, birth defects and development disorders in children.

http://www.thelocal.se/20140226/sweden-threatens-to-sue-the-eu-over-chemicals




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