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Anyone may guess the consequences of a European Chemicals Agency. First of all, evaluation in the interests of safety cannot give any certainty. We have antibiotics to show us that.
Nitrate fertilisers have brought about the agricultural miracle that is in part responsible for a 20-year increase in life expectancy nowadays. With REACH, for the sake of protecting rivers from pollution, we would have malnutrition in Europe.
In other words, under the guise of safety precautions, REACH is really just a preoccupation for the rich and for the Amish. The fundamental principle of this project is the post-modern obscurantism that springs from fear in a society that is so concerned with its quest for eternity that it no longer believes in progress.
The disaster at Seveso, the Aral Sea tragedy, all those ecological catastrophes, none of these will make us forget the miracle of chemistry that, day by day, enhances every moment of our life, with new fabrics from new materials, thousands of colours and thousands of perfumes.
If God had had to register his human product, born of organic chemistry, with the Agency in Helsinki, the very real potential dangers would have led to authorisation being refused for Man to be put on the market of the living world. Here’s the slogan that sums up REACH: ‘No future’."@en1
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