Packer Leather pushes “victory for common sense” with chemicals
11/11/2014
The tanning company’s joint-managing director, Lindsay Packer, complained to local politicians near its headquarters north of Brisbane that it can cost Packer Leather $20,000 to register a new chemical in Australia, where few tanneries remain, every time there is a breakthrough in the international leather industry. Even equipment it uses to measure chemicals have to undergo a separate Australian registration process.
If the new measures come into force, an item that has been registered by “a recognised and acceptable authority”, it will be recognised in Australia. Packer Leather’s local member of parliament, Wyatt Roy, told Australian media the development was a “victory for common sense”.
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