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Q&A: Jack De Bruijn, Director, Risk Management, European Chemicals Agency
The Indian chemical industry has become big business in recent years and is expected to be worth $200 billion by 2020. However, a European Union (EU) legislation called Regulation for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) that came into effect in 2007 could cut into this growth over the next decade. REACH already threatens 24 per cent of India’s chemical