Plastics lobby in court to keep toxic item off EU list

The Brussels-based lobby group, PlasticsEurope, is fighting an EU decision to mark a substance the plastics industry often uses as potentially dangerous.

The European trade association for the industry has gone all the way to the Court of Justice of the EU to take the material, called bisphenol A, off the so-called list of substances of very high concern.

"It's quite daunting, in my view, to come in and challenge this process which is really transparent and really well-documented,...