A virtual meeting of the EU’s chemicals Enforcement Forum on 22-25 June 2020 agreed that its enforcement focus for 2022, with preparation in 2021, would be integrated checks of products – mostly articles but also mixtures, and mostly expected to be consumer products.

William Wilson from Wyeside Consulting attended the UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum meeting in London on 15 January 2020.

In May 2019 in Oakland California a jury awarded a couple $2 billion in damages after finding that Monsanto’s glyphosate-based weedkiller Roundup caused the couple’s cancer, and that the company had failed to issue adequate warnings.

Defra officials gave an update on the Department’s Resources and Waste Strategy at the meeting of the UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum on 30 January 2016.

William Wilson of Wyeside Consulting Ltd attended the meeting of the UK Chemicals Stakeholders Forum in London on 24 October 2018.

Delegates at this meeting heard presentations and updates from a number of government departments.

In 17 May 2018 the General Court of the European Union delivered judgements on three joined cases on challenges to restrictions introduced at the EU level on neonicotinoid insecticides.

The meeting of the UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum held in London on 24 April 2018 heard a briefing from Defra on its proposed Resources and Waste Strategy.