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France's Ministry for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy has requested the country's Agency for food, health and occupational health and safety (Anses) to prepare a proposal to restrict the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in thermal receipt paper at EU level. Anses says it is still waiting for a detailed request from the ministry.

The ministry says it will facilitate discussions with stakeholders to support substitution of this application of BPA in order to allow a ban to be effected as quickly as possible.

Earlier this week, Anses published several reports on BPA (CW 9 April 2013)

In addition, the ministry is continuing its work to develop a national strategy on endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), which it says is being expanded to review several other suspected EDCs.