The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) publishes a monthly section called "myth of the month", where myths are fought against.
Safety and health is an area in which many myths are really "popular", and it is a great idea to provide information and explanations that can help people find what is real. That's why we support this initiative and contribute to disseminate this information.
Three months after REACH entered into force, there has been a lot of questions and queries about it.
You can have information on it on the ECHA site.
If you are interested on knowing more about REACH, wether you are user, manufactores or importer, the HSE (Health and Safety Executive) has put together some resources that are very clarifying.
The foot and mouth outbreak detected in UK is been tackled in a very efficient way, having learnt the lesson in 2001, when this was not the case.
More information on the outbreak from HSE
