France’s administrative supreme court, Conseil d’Etat, has ruled that
PlasticsEurope’s challenge to the country’s ban on bisphenol A (BPA) in
food-contact materials can be heard in its Constitutional Council because
the legal question presented is new. The plastics group argued that the
opinion from the French Agency for Food, Environment and Occupational
Health and Safety that the 2012 prohibition cited as justification
was inadequate because it was a “danger study” rather than an “evaluation
of risks.” The Constitutional Council now has three months to rule
on the case. See Bloomberg BNA, June 19, 2015.

 

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