Millions of tons of chemicals were used by industrial giants such as BASF, Bayer, Dow Chemicals and ExxonMobil without safety checks between 2014 and 2019, according to research by German environmentalists. The “roadmap on restrictions” published by the EU on Monday was conceived as a first step towards transforming this picture by using existing laws to ban toxic substances linked to cancer, hormone disruption, reproductive disorders, obesity, diabetes and other diseases.
