Responses to the two-month consultation set up by the European Commission’s Committee for Socio-Economic Analysis (SEAC) on proposed alterations to chrome VI detection limits have been published.

Ahead of the consultation, SEAC  recommended that the current 3 mg/kg concentration limit was to remain only temporarily and that the consultation was to gather information about achieving a reliable 1 mg/kg detection limit for CrVI in leather. Many of the responses, from trade associations, NGOs, universities and certifying organisations, concluded that there was support for continued improvement in reducing any risk to consumers, but that a limit of 1mg/kg was impossible at present.

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