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Article

1 Jul 2003

Author:
Samuel Loewenberg, American Prospect

Business Meets Its Match

The European Union, concerned that it does not have health or environmental data on the majority of the [chemical] compounds now in use, is crafting legislation that by 2005 will require the industry to conduct extensive safety tests on 30,000 common chemicals...U.S. companies will have to make some major adjustments if they want to do business in Europe's 340-million-person market