Vol. 41 | Vol. 41(5) - September / October 2023 | COLUMN: Regulation

Essential use of chemicals. An update

by cyb2025

ANTONIO CONTO
Chemsafe, Colleretto Giacosa (TO), Italy

As known, essential use, was initially proposed by scientists and later referred to in the EU 2020 Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (CSS). It consists in a radical departure from the current method of regulating hazardous substances.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Antonio Conto is the founder of Chemsafe, an indipendent Regulatory Affairs company established in 2001. He has been working as Experimental Toxicologist in an Italian CRO for 13 years (1988-2001) before founding Chemsafe.
He manages a lot of REACH registration dossiers and related Risk Assessment at international level. In 2011 he was recognized as European Registered Toxicologist i within EUROTOX as well as RENTIC (the Italian Registry of Toxicologist). Antonio pubblished around 100 papers in the field of regulatory science and attended lots of regulatory/scientific events as invited speaker. He is active members of various associations both in the chemical and medical areas (pharma and Medical Devices).

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